Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Jamaica and Cuba comes sweet, potent rum to London. It is stored in the West India Docks' "Rum Quay" warehouses north of the Isle of Dogs, where the Thames River winds through the flat slums of East London. One night last week a small fire started in a timberyard near "Rum Quay," soon got into the rum. A barrel burst, shot a fan of blue-blazing rum into the air. Soon concussions rocked the warehouse and burning rum ran in flickering blue rivers into the Thames. Blue flame fingered halfway across the Thames. London's brass-hatted...
...Terror hung in a red haze over Cuba last week, the advertised Terrorist week against the Government of Dictator Gerardo Machado detonated to an end. Dead were 20, all youths under 25. Cubans had so often seen the fantastic in murder that last week they believed every atrocious rumor whispered in an alleyway. But many a missing student had merely burrowed into hiding. Police walked the streets of Havana in pairs, carbines crooked under their arms. Newspapers were firmly gagged,* except the Administration's Heraldo de Cuba which growled: "The arm of popular will cannot be the bomb...
...Negroes scrambled down their bank, poked the bodies, then strolled off. The victims were Abilio and Ramiro Valdes Daussa, sons of Treasury Paymaster Francisco Valdes Leon. Their crime was hiding explosives in their home. Letting the Negroes shoot them down was perfectly legal under Cuba's ingenious ley de fuga (law of flight) which allows police -including the Porra-to kill prisoners "attempting to escape." Reports quickly circulated that Father Valdes Leon had committed suicide in his cell. This was denied by Prison Supervisor Ambrosio Diaz Galup...
...correspondents in Cuba asked the U. S. State Department for protection last week. In Washington, Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. and Senator Borah were reported rumbling about demanding U. S. intervention in Cuba. But Secretary Hull announced...
...only action with regard to Cuba that the Administration is considering is the appointment of an Ambassador...