Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kicking upstairs (to an innocuous post as Counselor of Embassy in Havana) of Allan Dawson, OARA's expert on Bolivia, because he protested against the State Department's inability to make up its mind about the new Bolivian regime...
They finished far ahead of such-popular favorites as Carmen Amaya, Carmen Miranda and Rosario & Antonio. Nobody questioned the justice of the verdict. After the ball was over, Raul & Eva returned to their four-to-six shows a day (divided between Broadway's Mexican Hayride and the Havana-Madrid night club) that earn them about $1,000 a week...
...born 30 years ago in the Cuban colony in Tampa; she, of upper-class Cuban parents in Havana. Raul trouped as a child actor through Central and South America, picked up dance steps as he went along, eventually drifted to Havana where he met Eva at a party. She was a schoolgirl of 15. But Raul wanted her so much for a partner that he married her on the spot. A few months later they made their first big-time appearance at Miami's Roney-Plaza Hotel...
Died. Dr. Jose Ignacio de Rivero y Alonso ("Pepin"), 49, editor and publisher of Cuba's oldest (1832) and most famous newspaper, the Havana Diario de la Marina; after long illness; in Vibora, Cuba. Somber, handsome Rivero, although a reactionary himself, in 1930 bitterly criticized the bloody-reactionary Machado regime, dodged its conspiracy and sedition charges by visiting the U.S. In 1934 he was machine-gunned by would-be assassins for forming the nationalistic afirmación Nacional party. In 1936 he blasted the Spanish loyalists, in 1941 was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot prize in journalism by Columbia...
...directors, as one awed official reported, "had a combined wealth of $850,000,000." Pan Am also had wide contacts in Washington, and the "seat-of-the-pants" flying knowledge of Juan Trippe. On this setup, Pan Am wangled its first contract to fly mail from Miami to Havana, for which it was paid $160,000 yearly. Overnight Juan Trippe became an adviser to the Post Office on expanding mail routes to South America...