Word: guggenheimers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Copper Tycoon Harry Frank Guggenheim, whom President Hoover sent to Cuba as Ambassador (TIME, Dec. 2), last week had his baptism by diplomatic fire...
Friends of the arrested editors rushed to the U. S. Embassy, handed the doorman a petition begging Ambassador Guggenheim to invoke the Platt Amendment- imposed by the U. S. on Cuba in 1910- by which the U. S. may intervene to preserve order and republican government...
...petitioners' heels came correspondents to question Ambassador Guggenheim. What was he going to do? Would he leave the editors to rot in jail on a trumped up charge of sedition? Would he act with all the power and majesty of the President whose personal representative...
...awkward, delicate moment- Copperman Guggenheim's first as a diplomat. He rose to the occasion with a declaration that he would neither admit nor deny having received the petition which was handed to the doorman. What action Ambassador Guggenheim then took behind scenes is not known, but two days later President Machado ordered the two editors, Carlos Dellunde of Santiago's La Region and Jose Arroyo Ramos of Santiago's La Independence, released from jail...
Twenty-seven designers and manufacturers signified their entry into the Guggenheim Fund world-wide safe aircraft contest after it opened two years ago. Rewards were to include $100,000 for the safest plane and $10.000 for each of five safe ones which could meet the competition's harsh but just tests. Only 15 planes appeared at Mitchel Field, L. I.. for trial. Six withdrew without trying. Others failed. Last week only two possible winners remained, the slotted-wing Curtiss (TIME, Jan. 6) and Frederick Handley Page's slotted-wing entry, an English make. The Handley Page failed...