Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instant Crusader Hall alighted at Havana, President William Pawley of Curtiss Aviation Co. of Cuba handed him a Cuban cocktail. After gulping it, Crusader Hall ejaculated, "That alone was worth the trip!" Then he ordered another.-ED. Convict Kylsant...
...Mendieta and a shipload of other insurgents. Their plan was to go down the coast, land, take charge of revo lutionary forces that had already taken the field, sweep into Havana in triumph. There was some traitor in the club. The Coral was scarcely free of the pier before Cuban gunboats started in pursuit. Seventeen men, including onetime President Menocal's two brothers Fausto and Guatimon slipped ashore to sidetrack the pursuers. They were promptly arrested and clapped into Cabana fortress. The Coral disappeared in the direction of Cuba's western tip, Pinar del Rio. Three days later...
...Richmond Pearson Hobson who sank the Merrimac in the mouth of Santiago harbor, are alive (Hero Hobson is now a Prohibition and antinarcotic lecturer- TIME, March 2). All the others- Roosevelt, Dewey, Shafter, Leonard Wood, Sampson. Schley, even Col. William Jennings Bryan of the Nebraska Volunteers -have died. Cuban revolutionists live longer. President Machado, General Menocal and Colonel Mendieta are all veterans of Cuba's War of Independence. Even Cosme de la Torriente, Cuba's grave member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, suddenly remembered his youth as an officer under Garcia and wrote violent...
...coast the yacht Coral hovered, disembarked 17 prominent revolutionists, and put hurriedly out to sea again. A Cuban police boat spotted her, set out in pursuit. Among the 17 were Fausto and Guatimon Menocal, brothers of one-time President Mario Garcia Menocal, and his son Mayito. They were arrested, clapped into Cabanas Fortress. Their friends had little hope of ever seeing them again. These arrests were the clues that wily President Machado was looking for. They showed him who was back of the attempted revolution. Orders flashed out: "Get the Coral. General Mario Menocal is on board...
...Cuban Congress hurriedly authorized President Machado to put the entire island under martial...