Word: havana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entrance to Havana Harbor stands a grey 300-year-old fortress called Morro Castle. On the sandy beach at Asbury Park, N. J. last week lay the smoking, fire-gutted, heat-wracked cadaver of a liner named after the fortress. Between Morro Castle and Asbury Park the Morro Castle passed through a maritime horror unequalled since the Vestris went down off the Virginia Capes (TIME...
Into Mr. Hart's office soon marched the Military Governor of Havana Province, grim Major Diaz Calderon, escorting a Cuban engineer, Eduardo Montoulieu. whom President Mendieta had appointed Government Interventor in charge of Cuban Telephone. They demanded Mr. Hart's resignation. He demanded some sort of assurance from the Cuban Government that they were not attempting outright confiscation. Doors were closed and a mighty haggle ensued...
...Havana leading U. S. businessmen expressed alarm at the setting of a precedent by President Mendieta which seemed to sweep away security for the U. S. control of U. S. investments in Cuba, but they congratulated ex-Manager Hart on a fat document he had obtained before resigning. In this the Cuban Government assumes liability for damages to the equipment of Cuban Telephone which may occur under its management. Telephone officials said that Interventor Montoulieu will soon find out that Cuban Telephone is not taking in enough money to meet its payroll. They added smugly that the operating deficit...
...once have visited Bardstown where it is reported he spent one colic-racked day in bed. But his first meeting with Father Joseph Flaget probably took place in 1799 in Havana where Louis Philippe was raising money to return to France. Havana's French colony got together 14,000 francs and Father Flaget made the presentation; Louis Philippe thanked him and sailed away...
Reason for this lavish gift, it is locally explained, is that Louis Philippe was grateful to Bishop Flaget for presenting the Havana purse of 14,000 francs. Most convincing proof of the gift is a bill introduced in Congress in 1824 and again in 1832 asking that Bishop Flaget be exempt from paying duties on "certain paintings and church furniture presented by the then Duke of Orleans, now King of the French, to the Bishop of Bairdstown...