Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carrying a trunk with a body in it out of a house here!" Detectives Elmer Mason and Rudolph McLaughlin climbed into their speedy little black Ford, rushed to the address in time to follow Mr. Wetzenberger's truck to a warehouse on East 41st Street. A Cuban broker by the name of Jorge de Zaldo was just about to receive the trunk when Elmer & Rudolph swooped, arrested broker and truckman, opened the trunk...
...Patrolman Melvin saw a yacht's searchlight flashing off the Steel Pier. Thinking it was a rumrunner, he made no effort to interfere. After a decent interval he approached the pier, was told by the night watchman that no rum had landed but that five Cubans in the last stages of seasickness had staggered ashore. Patrolman Melvin went into action, trailed the party to the Hotel Wiltshire. There he found Rosendo Collazo, onetime Cuban Senator and colonel; Aurelio Collazo, his son, a lawyer; Aurelio Alvarez, discontented sugar planter; Rafael Idurralde, another lawyer; Captain Luis H. Rodiguez, onetime political prisoner...
...banking trade. In 1906 both brothers took over their stepfather's Porto Rican sugar plantation. When the Porto Rico Telephone Co. fell into the hands of a friend who had accepted it in payment of a bad debt, the Behn Brothers took it over, combined with it the Cuban telephone system a few years later. They have been accumulating telephone and telegraph systems the world over ever since.† I. T. & T.'s most noteworthy purchase in North America was the Mackay companies which included Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., bought in 1928. Col. Sosthenes, the more glamorous half...
...Cafe on the Road to Calais" and "Beautiful Love" (Victor)?Ohman & Arden, the Gershwin piano-specialists, prove themselves with a hot Cuban rumba and a conventional waltz...
...Mama Inez" and "Muchacha" (Brunswick)?Vincent Lopez makes the best Cuban rumba records. Honors go to his percussives...