Word: havana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtained by Photographer Tom Howard, who wore a tiny camera strapped to his ankle, had a remote-control cable release in his pocket, gave the film a six-second exposure from his seat twelve feet from the chair. Newshawk Howard was given a $100 bonus, a trip to Havana for his pains...
...practice of dispatching protective committees to foreign capitals to make demands, usually futile, for payment on defaulted dollar bonds. Last week Cuba witnessed a surprising combination of those two commonplaces. At the head of a protective committee two U. S. Senators marched into the Presidential Palace in Havana for no other purpose than to dun. The committee's chairman was Senator Gerald P. Nye; its counsel, Senator Burton K. Wheeler...
...leadership the protective committee was quite orthodox. Since the private activities of U. S. Senators are not limited by law, the committee when it was formed about a year ago, made a shrewd bid for Senatorial patriotism and prestige. Thus it was that Senators Nye & Wheeler popped up in Havana last week at the behest of unhappy holders of $40,000,000 of Public Works bonds issued in the U. S. in the twilight of the Machado dictatorship. After Machado fled, the Grau San Martin Government repudiated the loan as illegally contracted, and the Cuban Supreme Court is now pondering...
...cigars. In a lifetime of selling liquor Mr. Kessler had had to sample many a whiskey. He estimates that the droplets thus consumed add up to five gallons, his total consumption. To make up for such abstinence, he used to buy 10,000 cigars whenever he went to Havana for molasses...
Ahead of his homecoming colleagues, Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus had already landed in the U. S. And last week ahead of all of them in the study of President Roosevelt was Ambassador Jefferson Caffery who poured good news from Havana into the Presidential ear: Since the negotiation of the reciprocal trade agreement with Cuba (TIME, Sept. 3), business there had picked up, Cubans were pulling out of the Depression...