Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gifts from many sources included rare plants from tropical Africa, China, Alaska, Cuba, Italy, Philippine Islands, Crete, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and various parts of Canada and continental United States. Field expeditions gathered specimens in Louisiana, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and Dominica, and thousands of other specimens were acquired by purchase or exchange throughout the world...
Helen Gould was not only interested in railroads, but a notable patron of the Railroad Y. M. C. A. One of the first beneficiaries of her charity was the U. S. Government, to which, in 1898, she gave $100,000 to help defray the expenses of "freeing" Cuba. She was also a pillar of the Red Cross, the D. A. R., the Dutch Reformed Church, and supported the American Tract Society in its efforts to reconvert Soviet Russia to Christianity...
...Export-Import Bank-interpreted as the U. S. answer to Japan's slamming the once open door to U. S. commerce in the occupied regions. Another boost to China came in the form of 15 fighting planes contributed by sympathizers in the U. S., Canada and Cuba...
...reticent, solid man who loved painting and fishing and studied little else, Glackens won the respect of several schools and generations. Born in Philadelphia, he began his career as an illustrator for Philadelphia newspapers. McClure's Magazine sent him to Cuba to sketch the Spanish-American War, as Harper's had sent Winslow Homer to cover the Civil War. In toughness, gaiety and all-round draftsmanship, his illustrations, of which the Whitney last week exhibited 35, stood with those of his most gifted Realist contemporaries, John Sloan, Robert Henri, George Luks...
...Havana, Boss Fulgencio Batista announced the upshot of his last month's trip to the U. S. : a new U. S.-Cuba trade treaty, with concessions to Cuban sugar, tobacco, potatoes and rum in return for concessions to Louisiana rice and other products...