Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington, March 29--The Platt Amendment should be abolished and the Cuban people should be given the opportunity to stand upon their own foot politically Summer Welles, assistant secretary of State and former American Ambassador to Cuba, declared tonight in a speech be- fore the Young Democratic Clubs of America...
Welles said the right of the American government to intervene in Cuba, bestowed by the Platt Amendment, had been grossly abused by American financial interests operating in Cuba...
Actor Morgan's real name is Francis Phillip Wuppermann. Josephine Wuppermann, his mother, is, at 82, president and treasurer of Angostura-Wuppermann, sole agents for Angostura bitters in the U. S., Canada, Mexico and Cuba. Only three persons know what Angostura is made of, and a Wuppermann is not one of them. Mr. Alfredo Galo Siegert of Trinidad, grandson of the first man ever to brew Angostura, shares his secret only with a brother and a brother-in-law. Lest something happen to ail three at once, a copy of the formula is locked in a bank vault...
Yellow Jack (by Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif; Guthrie McClintic. producer). After the Spanish-American War, in which more U. S. soldiers were killed by yellow fever than in battle, the War Department sent a medical commission to Cuba to find, if possible, the cause and cure of this deadly tropical disease. The commission was headed by Dr. Walter Reed. With him was Dr. James Carroll. In Cuba they found Dr. Jesse W. Lazear, European-trained microbiologist, and Cuban Dr. Aristides Agramonte...
...Tugwell's plans for restricting production, was brought back into the Administration fold on his own terms. He agreed to head the Export-Import Bank founded to promote Russian trade. Later he was also expected to take command of two other unformed banks, one to promote trade with Cuba, the other, trade with the rest of the world...