Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made the President jump was a despatch from British Nassau to the Cuban State Department, later "confirmed by the War and Navy Departments" to the effect that two schooners loaded with munitions were racing for the Cuban shores. Promptly the entire Cuban Navy (19 vessels) put to sea, and every Spanish-language newspaper in Havana was suppressed. Finally by executive decree, Dictator Machado conferred "upon all members of the Cuban Army and Navy, including officers, soldiers and sailors regardless of rank and whether on active duty or not, full powers to pursue police investigations and to make arrests...
McGrath, a member of the All-Star team, helped defeat the Colon players, champions of the Isthmian league by hitting a home run and bringing the score to 4 to 2. In the last game, on January 1, with the Cuban Telephone Company, McGrath shared pitching duties with Trudnak of Bucknell, and also scored a home...
With a rubber bandage around one knee, flat-nosed, beetle-browed Battling Battalino of Hartford, Conn., featherweight champion of the world, advanced crouching in Madison Square Garden toward Kid Chocolate (Eligio Sardinias), flashy Cuban Negro. With an eye for an evening's entertainment and the support of the Italian vote at the next election. Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut was at the ringside rooting for Battalino and so was Mayor Walter Batterson of Hartford. Wild and scared in the first round, feeling the hostility of the crowd which had called him "cheese champion" because he kept his title safe...
Ready to present a united though ill-defined front, the Cuban, American and Javan interests then journeyed to Brussels to meet the great beet-sugar men of Europe. Only complete harmony in Brussels will assure world sugar stability...
Likewise in Amsterdam were representatives of Visp (Vereenigde Javasuiker Producenten) the Dutch sugar trust which controls 90% of Java's sugar industry. Intrigue and plotting marked the conferences. From the Cuban Nationalist party came dire messages warning the Dutch that soon a revolution will overthrow the Cuban Government, repudiate all of last week's deals. Busily hurrying around was Ivy Ledbetter Lee, famed Wall Street publicist. Mr. Chadbourne fought off bronchitis to attend the meetings. Java at first was recalcitrant. Production would be restricted next year, said the Visp men, but the future depended on consumption...