Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been announced that Professor Thomas Barbour '08, Director of the University Museum and of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Custodian of the Harvard Biological Laboratory and the Botanic Garden in Cuba, has been chosen as Harvard's representative to the Pan-American Educational Congress, which has attracted educators from all over the world, and to the celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the University of Havana...
While on this trip Dr. Barbour is to make an inspection of the Harvard Biological Establishment in cuba, and the Barrow Colorado Island Laboratory in the Canal Zone. He is not expected to return before the first...
When U. S. Ambassador Harry Frank Guggenheim arrived in Cuba, one of the crankiest, most vexatious problems he found waiting settlement was a $9,000,000 real estate claim of U. S. citizen Joseph E. Barlow, long-time Havana resident and land promoter (TIME, April 29 et seq.). For ten years Mr. Barlow, at times irascible, had been pressing the U. S. Government for justice from Cubans he claimed had stolen his property. Last week Ambassador Guggenheim thought he had found a method of settlement. Citizen Barlow balked at the arrangement...
Citizen Barlow claims that in 1919 he bought swamp acres in what is now the business centre of Havana, developed them with streets, sewers, watermains; that one Pedro Gomez Mena. in connivance with then President Zayas of Cuba, seized the land, formed Gomez Mena Land Co.; that Cuban courts had upheld the Barlow titles; that officers of the land company as Cuban Congressmen were immune to arrest and prosecution; that therefore the court orders against them could not be executed...
...Next meeting of the Pan-American Medical Association will be at Lima, Peru, beginning Jan. 31, 1931. President is C. Paz-Soldan of Peru, president at large Maria Fernandez of Cuba...