Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Dorothy Patterson Judah, 40, daughter of the late John Patterson, founder of National Cash Register Co., divorced wife of onetime U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Noble Brandon Judah; and Socialite Randolph Santini of Manhattan; in Manhattan...
...anticipated crop up in connection with the musicomedy, called Dancing Lady. Gloomy, irascible, gnawed by dark creative fervors, the dance director presently hears that his backer has withdrawn his support because the young socialite wants his inamorata to be, not an actress, but his companion on a trip to Cuba. As vapid a snip as has ever disgraced his class in the cinema, Tod seems vaguely hurt because Janie, when she learns what subterfuges he has used, goes back to the musicomedy which the dance director is financing from his own pocket, helps the opening night to be completely gala...
Next day he heard about the wreck of an airplane off Havana in which one Edwin F. Atkins Jr., a U. S. planter in Cuba, had been lost. Friends of the planter identified the shark's meal. For years thereafter whenever a person asked him the old question, "Will sharks eat human beings?" Sharkman Young produced a photograph of his partner standing in front of the disemboweled shark, holding the Atkins human arm. Last fortnight that sickening picture, with many another, was reproduced in Sharkman Young's garrulous, rambling fisherman's book Shark! Shark!, set down...
Something of great import to all Cuba leaked out of President Roosevelt's Warm Springs swimming pool last week: able Ambassador Sumner Welles, known to be antipathetic to the Grau San Martin regime, was about to be withdrawn. By midnight the rumor became certainty with an official announcement from the President. Ambassador Welles was to be succeeded by Assistant Secretary of State Jefferson Caffery. But. as a direct snub to the Grau Government, Mr. Welles was to return to Havana for a brief period, still U. S. Ambassador. When Mr. Caffery succeeds him it will be as an unofficial...
...First visitor at the "Little White House" at Warm Springs was U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Sumner Welles, who had flown up from Havana. For weeks President Grau San Martin had been agitating the removal of Mr. Welles, on the grounds that his sympathies still lay with the de Cespedes regime. Following the U. S. precedent of never removing an envoy under fire without a policy change, President Roosevelt after a five-hour conference persuaded Mr. Welles to return to his post after a quick trip to Washington to see Acting Secretary of State Phillips...