Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days' rest. . . Out for a spin with Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn, the Duke of Kent suddenly wrenched the wheel, slithered off the road, just missed a truck that had turned into his path. . .Ex-King Carol and Elena found Mexico City more responsive than Havana. They gave a party at which Heiress Barbara Hutton and Friend Cary Grant turned...
Cuba had a field day, despite four bombings in Havana which wounded twelve and caused the arrest of 19 suspects. In addition to seizing the 3,335-ton Finnish steamer Koura and interning as belligerents the crew of 19, the Government completed its commercial rupture with the Axis, as of Sept. 5. Jailed were two more Spanish Falangists for possession of pro-Axis documents...
While the U.S. sped aid to Britain last week, little Cuba was speeding aid to the U.S. Through Havana's streets the Municipal Band led a parade whose banners heralded the opening of National Aluminum Week. Purpose: to send the U.S. 35,000 pounds of aluminum pots & pans -enough for a bomber named the Cuba...
...Senator George did not know last week what was in the mind of the President of the United States, whose forces are empowered by the 1940 Havana Convention to occupy foreign-held American soil and talk about it afterward...
...Havana for a Night (Nat Brandywynne, pianist with rhythm accompaniment; Decca; 10 sides). Latin-American album of the month, containing such well-knowns as Vereda Tropical, Aquellos Ojos Verdes, Perfidia...