Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used to be," said Perrier, who once made a fortune selling real estate in the U.S. and lost it gambling in Havana, "that you could fight a nice duel for two or three thousand lire. Now it costs 25,000 ($111 ) or more. How do you spend the money? Well, you have to rent the swords. That's 5,000. Then there are the doctors -another 5,000. Then a dinner for your seconds-10,000. And of course you have to take a taxi. It's too much. I don't know anyone I dislike well...
...Havana man in the street, Communist Lázaro Peña is the Cuban Confederation of Labor (C.T.C.) and the Cuban Confederation of Labor is Peña. Once a tobacco worker and now a connoisseur of fine cigars, he dominates meetings of his 400,000-member Confederation with his booming, deliberate voice, his attacks on U.S. imperialismo, his praise of Russia. His chief monument is the block-long Palacio de Los Trabajadores (Labor Palace), for which President Ramón Grau San Martin allotted $772,000 to butter up the Communists after they had given him a political...
...Havana, Cuba, the authorities expected a big day. Soldiers lay on the flat roofs along the parade's route, while first-aid stations and Red Cross blood banks stood by. It was the quietest May Day on record...
...conservative U.S. papers the sultry little tale from Havana got what it deserved: decent burial on an inside page, below the fold. In the tabloids, and such dailies as are tabloids under the skin, the life, loves and death of one John Lester Mee got top billing as the season's spiciest mixture of sin, sex, masochism and mon-keyshine justice. It was the type of news the U.S. press tells only too well, and loves to tell...
...story like that was too good to leave in the hands of Havana's 22 dailies, so a covey of U.S. newsmen flew in to take over. When Satira was taken aboard the yacht to "reenact" the shooting (before a perspiring judge and a mob of curious...