Word: cubas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...liner St. Louis left Hamburg one Sunday last month. Out into the grey waste of the Atlantic it carried its dismal cargo: 937 German-Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. The ten-year-old, oil-burning, 16,732-ton ship was scheduled to discharge its miserable company at Havana, proceed to New York to pick up passengers for a gay June cruise to the West Indies. The refugees were to remain in Cuba until they could enter the U. S. They were a typical group of the world's newest homeless wanderers: men in sports clothes who had paid...
...From Cuba to Cape Breton lies the most famed game-fishing lane in the world. Once the pastime of sophisticated sportsmen, the great, crazily unpredictable and usually expensive sport of game fishing has become popular in the past five years among more ordinary summer vacationists. Last week, reverently as turn-of-the-century maidens perennially inspecting their hope chests, thousands of winter-weary U. S. men & women took out their dusty fishing kits, added a few newfangled gadgets, collected roadmaps for their annual summer fishing trip...
...Chairman Marvin Jones of the House Agriculture Committee President Roosevelt wrote a letter to sit hard upon a bill which would have upped the sugar quotas of tariff-protected mainland sugar producers by reducing the slice of the U. S. sugar market still left to the Philippines, Good Neighbor Cuba, and other foreign countries. The President damned the busy sugar lobby as "professionally dissatisfied...
Died. Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, 67, President of Cuba for 24 days following Dictator Machado's flight in 1933; after long illness, and just a few hours before his predecessor in office: in Havana...
Died. General Gerardo Machado y Morales, 67, onetime (1924-33) President and terroristic Dictator of Cuba, who shot dissenters in the back or fed them to sharks, and whose own officers drove him from Cuba in 1933; of abdominal cancer; in Miami Beach...