Word: havana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery left the front door of his Embassy in Havana and walked down the street in his cutaway and high hat-nonchalantly as became a diplomat. He proceeded straight to the door of the Presidential Palace where, as he arrived, a band on the terrace played "The Star Spangled Banner" and "El himno bayames." Marching inside while the guns of Cabanas Fortress across the bay boomed a 21-gun salute, he received profuse protestations of pleasure from President Carlos Mendieta y Montefur. There was bravery in Ambassador Caffery's walk from...
...Carlos Mendieta, has played a smart and liberal game but has not erased the memory of martyred Grau from the minds of Cuba's lower classes. Still practically ungovernable, they believe in Grau. Last week 100,000 of them, students, workmen, Negroes, sailors, swarmed around the docks in Havana Harbor to welcome their martyr home...
Cuba. A crowd of about 10,000 people marching peaceably under red banners got as far as Carlos III Street in Havana when they heard something that sounded like a shot. Panicky soldiers fired wildly into the crowd, which returned the fire. Seven workers, one woman, two soldiers and a policeman were wounded. Next day students staged a protest meeting, rioted again. Soldiers this time killed one, wounded 16. Spain. An almost complete general strike tied up Spain for the day. Killed: 1; wounded: 14. Chile. Tight censorship closed the Press after clashes between Santiago crowds and mounted carabineros...
...feeling New Yorkers have wondered if she would not make an ideal Isolde, but Lotte Lehmann knows her limitations, says she would be exhausted before the first act was over. She is more conceited about her horseback riding and her writing than about her singing. Traveling from Buffalo to Havana lately she wrote 3,000 words describing her reaction to the country, the Cuban excitement over new President Carlos Mendieta. Her piece was published in the New York Staats-Zeitung...
With his cheerful zest for getting things done, President Roosevelt saw $2,000,000 worth of pork, lard, wheat flour and rice dispatched with utmost urgency to Havana. Mr. Welles had evidently told his White House friend that the danger of a Negro uprising and race-war in depression-ridden Cuba is real. If it can be bought off with $10,000,000 worth of dollar diplomacy the price seemed cheap to Washington. Having refused to lend a cent to feed hungry, rebellious Cubans until President Mendieta had been maneuvered in, President Roosevelt was credited throughout Latin America this week...