Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peanut Vendor (El Manisero), with its hot, catchy rhythm between a jig and a tango, has started an invasion. Don Azpiazu's Havana Orchestra brought the song north last year, played it with other Cuban tunes at RKO's Palace Theatre in Manhattan, afterwards at the smart Central Park Casino. Then Don Azpiazu went back to Cuba to entertain U. S. tourists. He left his tunes behind. Manhattan's Leo Reisman learned to lead them. Reisman's drummer mastered the four complicated beats which Cuban orchestras emphasize with the bongo (a double-headed drum held between...
...must congratulate you and the writer of such information regarding Cuban matters for its exact veracity and its splendid mode of telling the things we are undergoing...
...make our situation worse and most unbearable, there comes from "Cuba's Mussolini" this new Tax Law that levies every conceivable product, rent and income with an absurd percentage. If such law is finally enacted (was passed by the Cuban Senate tn three hours' time without study or discussion), it shall mean our FINISH for good. God have mercy on us and may be lenient with Machado when his last moment comes...
...hour later the Oropesa pulled out of the harbor with the princes on board and a parting gift of twelve boxes of ripe red Bermuda strawberries. Four days later the slow Oropesa was in Havana harbor, dropped anchor for five hours. Possibly because of Cuban political unrest, officially because the British Court is still in mourning for the Princess Royal, H. R. H. Victoria, sister of King George, Their Royal Highnesses set no foot on Cuban ground. Only potent gentlemen to meet them were British Minister Thomas J. Morris, Cuban Secretary of State Francisco Maria Fernandez and President Machado...
...eight years." To European sugarmen this slaughter of the Russian bogey represented an amazing accomplishment. When Mr. Chadbourne embarked he said: "I will return to Europe within six months, after I have had a rest. I have spent the last six months working 15 hours daily, including Sunday. . . . My Cuban friends, fortified by the cooperation of the entire sugar world, may face the future with full confidence." By "Cuban friends," Mr. Chadbourne really meant the U. S. tycoons who have invested $750,000,000 in Cuban sugar companies, either personally or through certain banks. Next step of the Chadbourne Plan...