Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the Civil War. Southernmost U. S. port, situated on a coral island 60 mi. southwest of the Florida mainland (now joined by the oversea Florida East Coast R. R.), during the Spanish War it was concentration centre for the U. S. Atlantic Fleet, embarkation point for many a Cuba-bound soldier. During the World War it served as a Naval flyers' training station, since has been a repair port and operating base for submarines, destroyers. Last week the Navy Department, pursuing the Administration's rigid-economy plans, ordered this historic base closed, together with its industrial plants...
Democratic critics professed to see a connection between the contributions of Mr. Willys and Mr. Guggenheim and their appointments as Ambassadors to Poland and Cuba, respectively. It remained for Texas Representative John Nance Garner, Democratic leader of the House to declare: "I attach considerable significance to the fact that each of the individuals contributing $10,000 to the Republican campaign fund has been a beneficiary of the extremely liberal policy of the U. S. Treasury with respect to tax refunds, credits and abatements...
Died. Daniel Guggenheim, 74, famed copperman and philanthropist, father of U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry Frank Guggenheim, brother of Simon Guggenheim, onetime Senator from Colorado and three other potent financiers (Murry, Solomon R. and William); after a short illness, of heart failure, at his home in Port Washington, L. I. He was second of the seven sons of the late Meyer Guggenheim who emigrated from Switzerland as a boy, made lace in Philadelphia, later built up one of the greatest metal trusts in the world (American Smelting & Refining Co.). Constant aide in his father's metal projects was Daniel...
...short session next December, would be asked to vote U. S. adherence to the World Court. Even with the "Revision Protocol" blocked, adherence could be voted by the Senate with acceptance of the famed "Root Protocol," the two being parallel documents. But last week the President, far from whipcracking Cuba or preparing to wheedle the Senate, gave correspondents to understand that he plans postponement of the entire issue until next year...
...Poverty and unemployment are feeding the flames of political unrest! What has happened recently in South American Republics would seem to be inevitable in Cuba unless the influence of our government is exerted immediately to avert trouble...