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...Hull had no less than 15 on his hands. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper announced that it had been reported to him that Latin Americans, sensitive about bribe-taking, would cancel all U. S. trade contracts unless the Senate investigation was conducted more privately. Chilean Minister of War Emilio Bello Codesido announced that no U. S. bids would be considered in the next purchase of aviation material. Senator Nye, after a conference with Secretaries Hull and Roper, tried to put a better face on his inquiry by explaining: "The committee deeply regrets that a false impression may have been...
...year's maneuvers. He wants to see how his Cabinet will behave in wartime. Every Cabinet Minister with the exception of Minister of Justice Pietro de Francisci was mobilized this week to serve with the troops. Minister of Communications Umberto Puppini will command infantry divisions. Minister of Colonies General Emilio de Bono will serve as a field judge. Minister of Education Francesco Ercole will head field telegraph and radio. Minister of Finance Guido Jung has a regiment of artillery. Hardest job goes to Under Secretary of Corporations Alberto Asquini who will be responsible for one of the still untried celeri...
Distantly related to Producer Delano is Chile's present Minister to Washington, Don Emilio Edwards. Not long ago the President gave him a book about the Chilean adventures of a Delano to be presented to Santiago's University. At Seville in 1929 Fourth Cousin Jorge, who is closer kin to the 32nd President of the U. S. than the 32nd President was to the 26th President, won the Ibero-American Cinema Grand Prix with his silent Chilean film, The Street of Dreams...
...president of Chase National Bank (world's largest). And with good cause. Banker Aldrich had read in TIME, May 15: ". . . Of Chase's $30,000,000 first loan [to Cuba], $2,000,000 went into commissions-$500,000 to 'Wood Louse' Obregon" (Jose Emilio Obregon, son-in-law of Cuba's President Machado...
...Dictator Machado's murders. A few facts are undisputed. In 1924 horn-rimmed Gerardo Machado y Morales was an officer of the Santa Clara subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share, to whom he had sold his own power company a few months earlier. His son-in-law, Jose Emilio Obregon. sometimes called the "Wood Louse" because of his handling of shiploads of lumber donated to Cuba by the American Red Cross after the 1926 hurricane, was manager of Chase National Bank's Havana branch (1927-31). The Chase Bank first loaned the Machado Government $30,000,000, paid...