Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Havana, the 63-nation conference on freer world trade dug deeper into one of its major dilemmas: every economically backward nation in the world has hopes of industrializing itself; none wants to be merely a source of cheap bananas, coffee or jute. Last week some of them were clinging to the right to use every trick in the book of economic nationalism, if necessary, to make their dreams come true...
...President Ramón Grau San Martin. Later, he came out, smiling. Said he: "Grau is content with my conduct before the Senate." In the Senate, Labor Minister Prio Socarrás had been called on the carpet last week to explain why he threw the Communists out of Havana's Labor Palace last August (TIME, Aug. 11). He told the Senate that the Reds were a fifth column for Russia, that they did not belong in the Labor Palace and that they did not represent Cuban labor. By the time he had finished almost everyone but the Communists...
...health demanded it). "There's nothing wrong with me," she informed the press, "except 45 years of my husband's 16-hour working day. ... He was terrifically tired. . . ." On top of that, Clayton hinted that he might head the delegation to the World Trade Conference in Havana this month...
...eight-coach train clanked to a stop at a crossing on Havana's outskirts. In the darkness thousands were waiting; they had been waiting since early afternoon. Spotlights from Army jeeps and armored cars stabbed at the dark coach windows. In the glare 800 defiant revolutionaries waved at the crowd and shouted: "Death to Trujillo." Turned back by a Cuban gunboat, the men who had sailed from Cuba to overthrow Dominican Dictator Trujillo were returning under guard, and to Havana they were heroes...
...State Department passed the word that it was against the whole scheme. Finally, Cuban Army Boss Genovevo, who had opposed the filibuster from the start, seized much of the expedition's arsenal on Education Minister Alemán's estate near Havana. Grau's hand was forced (TIME, Oct. 6). The Army and Navy went to work, and the invasion...