Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gonzalo de Quesada. When Quesada introduced him to Jose Julian Marti, known as "the Master" to U. S.-exiled Cuban revolutionaries, young Rubens caught fire from Marti's fervor, swore he would get in there and fight for Cuban independence. This book is the disarmingly partisan record of how Cuba finally got quit of Spain. His own place in the epic Author Rubens keeps modestly choral: heroes of his tale are Poet Marti, Mulatto General Antonio Macéo, white-bearded, spectacled Máximo Gomez, Cuba herself...
...After public school, he was graduated by the Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. Followed two years of itinerant school teaching. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he joined the 2nd U. S. Volunteer Infantry, was elected Captain of Company I. He served a year in Cuba, fighting through the Santiago campaign. As an assistant secretary, he went to the Philippines with the Taft Commission. Back in Louisiana he got a quick law degree from Tulane University, was admitted to the bar in 1901, hung out his shingle at New Iberia, still his home. He served five...
...countries of eastern Asia are objects of oppression by the white people. This fact is undeniable and imperial Japan should no longer let their impudence go unpunished. . . . The United States loudly professes to champion righteousness and humanity, but what can you think when you review its policy toward Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua and other Latin American nations? Nowhere in the society of nations do we find the pacific spirit which we call Japanese 'kultur.' We must shake our fist in their faces...
...medical insurance system of Cuba's mutual benefit clubs last week forced the National Medical Federation of Cuba to call a strike. The clubs, or centres?notably the Galician Centre and the Asturian Centre each with about 100,000 members ?are among Cuba's richest institutions. Tourists often mistake the ornate Asturian clubhouse near the new Capitol Building for President Machado's palace which is several blocks away...
Died. Facundo Bacardi, 40, vice president of famed Bacardi & Co.; of an accidentally inflicted bullet wound with pneumonia and septic complications; in Santiago, Cuba. The Bacardi distillery, founded by his grandfather, produces 25,000 gal. daily, has built a $50,000,000 fortune shared by three other grandsons...