Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps I can round out part of your item on the Cuban Musical Invasion (TIME...
Died? Howard Trumbo, 56, president of Cuban-American Mining Co. (manganese), onetime president of the American Club in Havana, classmate of Herbert Clark Hoover (1895) at Stanford University.; of a kidney ailment; in Havana...
...Presented last week by the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. So numerous are his medals that he lumps them thus: Patron's Medal, 1928, by Royal Geographical Society, for work in Polar regions, culminating in (1928) flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen; awarded gold medals by American, Belgian, Danish, Cuban Geographical Societies (the Cuban society last week gave a medal to Georges Claude, French scientist who experimentally generates electricity from the heat differences between the surface and bottom waters of Matanzas Bay); silver medals by German Geographical Society and City of Berlin; gold medal by Norwegian and French Aeronautical Societies...
...midst of all this uproar, President Machado last week signed a decree allowing all suppressed Cuban newspapers and magazines to resume publication...
...Cuba, where gambling facilities abound, divorce was last week made almost as easy as in Mexico. Almost unanimous votes in both houses of the national Congress modified the Cuban law as follows: "Divorces may be granted on the application of both parties, the decrees to be known as mutual consent decrees. They will be effective within 90 days from the filing of application. Both parties shall report before courts three times, 30 days apart." The divorce becomes automatically effective if, 30 days after the decree is issued, the parties do not ask to have it set aside. The bill makes...