Word: havana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point Napoleon invades Italy, and Anthony is packed off to Havana to wind up his grandfather's business. He discovers affairs in such a mess that he must go to Africa and trade in slaves in order to collect the Bonnyfeather debts. Several long, embittering years pass before Anthony can return to Europe. In the meanwhile old Bonnyfeather has died, and Napoleon has taken Anthony's wife as his mistress. Desepite attempts on his life by the Marquis, Anthony reaches Paris and discovers that he has a son. The movie ends as Anthony...
...Havana, police raided a hotel, found pretty Señorita Librada Aida Aspuru lying naked on a bed in a darkened room, were informed she had been living there four years, her board and lodging paid for by Señor José Gregorio Silva. Protested she: "I didn't know anything about this World, and I don't want to know anything about it. I want to live alone, to be let alone, and to live in darkness." Said Señor Silva, confirming her story: "She has been suffering an hysteria of sadness. ... I am doing...
...only censorship but bombing of the press is an old Cuban tactic and last week some daring Cubans, who were rumored to be in sympathy with the radical Spanish Government, decided to destroy two Havana newsorgans considered most sympathetic with Spain's Whites. A 12-year-old touring car in which were concealed 1,500 sticks of dynamite and a time-clock detonator was parked outside the editorial offices of Diario de la Marina. Meanwhile a truck parked in front of the newspaper El Pais blew up with an explosion heard for miles, wrecked El Pais...
...From Havana, the Pan-American Columbus Society petitioned all the governments of the Western Hemisphere to offer protection in Madrid during the Spanish rebellion to Don Cristobal Colon, Duke of Veragua, direct descendant of Christopher Columbus...
Senator Phelan, according to your article under Art in TIME, June 15, was fond of $1 Havana cigars. This recalls to mind, I was collecting rent from Aron Cohen at his cigar store in Santa Cruz, where James Phelan Sr. had his summer home and where young Jimmie spent his summers under the parental roof...