Word: havana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a balance of $3,600,000 remaining due on the $9,000,000 J. P. Morgan & Co. loan to Cuba, Partner Thomas S. Lament was in Havana last week. He seemed to set off no fireworks by proposing to the Mendieta Government repayment at the rate of $900,000 each July 1. Fortnight ago all Cuba cheered a Government commission which cracked down on Chase National Bank by advising President Mendieta to repay nothing on Chase's share of $60,000,000 worth of bonds floated in the U. S.-advice as to which the President prudently made...
Cuba. Provisional President Carlos Mendieta finished his speech at a naval officers' luncheon at Tiscornia Camp across the bay from Havana and sat down. BAM! A huge hole opened in the wall under a stairway, blew a great wind across the room. A seaman and a Navy paymaster stood directly between Mendieta and the stairway. The blast killed both, scratched Mendieta's left hand and wounded a scattering of Cuban officialdom. Said President Mendieta: "It was a terrible surprise but just one of those things." Another of "those things" Spoke two days later from submachine guns...
...Carl Dickey is a member of the Manhattan press-agent firm of Carl Byoir & Associates. Carl Byoir, onetime publisher of the Havana Post and Telegram, developed to his full stature under George Creel in the Wartime propaganda service. From Publicist Dickey the committee learned that in 1933 the Byoir agency had received $4.000 from Consul Kiep to "explain" Hitlerite anti-Semitism in publicity releases. Since then the firm has handled a $6,000-a-month campaign publicizing German Railways, travel in Germany. Of the $6,000 monthly fee, said Mr. Dickey, $1.750 went to George Sylvester Viereck...
...leave for church, a motor car drove past his home and its occupants fired a fusillade, mortally wounding one military guard. Next day the automobile of First Secretary H. Freeman Matthews was assaulted only a short distance from the Caffery residence, but Secretary Matthews was not in it. All Havana seemed to be seething with anti-U. S. feeling and the assassination of the U. S. Ambassador would have been welcomed by many...
...year-old chimpanzee. At Orange Park on June 26, 1933, she gave birth to fraternal twins, male & female. The father was an 11-year-old brought from Africa by a sailor. Mona had spent 15 years on Mme Rosalia Abreu's famed ape farm in Havana, was already mother of three. One of her daughters was the first chimpanzee of dated birth and known parentage to mature sexually (at the age of eight) in captivity...