Word: laredos
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...when his portrait is hung in the Cuban Senate it.will be inscribed "President Franklin D. Roosevelt-Author of the Doctrine Good Neighbor." Painter of many a Cuban notable, Dr. Valderrama has developed a theory that every man has his special color, thinks the color of heavy-featured Cuban President Laredo Bru is pálido (pale), the color of swarthy, hard-hitting Colonel Batista is blanco-rojo, or white-red. Last week Dr. Valderrama got his first sitting at the White House. Working with a box of pastel crayons open before him while a Viennese etcher made pencil sketches...
...rain, of wintry winds that ruined the tomato crop of the lower Rio Grande, killed cattle in the Kissimmee Valley of Florida, and spread a blanket of snow over the red clay of Georgia hills, over the pine woods of Alabama and the low Louisiana marshlands. Snow fell at Laredo on the Mexican border, beginning one midnight and falling until 5 the next morning, to the wonder of the natives; in San Antonio it fell gently on the adobe houses, on the cactus and the palm trees, on the children who had never seen it before. The heaviest snow...
After receiving this slap, the Strong Man ordered his stooge President Dr. Federico Laredo Bru to dissolve the Cuban falange, an offshoot of Spanish Fascism, and legalize the Cuban Communist Party, which soon boasted 25,000 dues-paying members. Strong Man Batista's subsequent spectacular State visits in Washington to New Dealer Roosevelt and in Mexico City to even Newer Dealer Cardenas seemed to go over big with the Cuban populace. The Strong Man's return from these visits was celebrated in Havana with unprecedented popular rejoicing and wild huzzas. Last week, the Communists swung into line behind...
...accepted but it was too late. The Cubans, who felt that in receiving 5,000 German-Jewish refugees they had already done more than their share, declared the matter "definitely closed," refused to listen to further pleas. A young Jewess who crashed an official reception to appeal to President Laredo Bru on behalf of her parents on the St. Louis was hustled off by aides...
...four days it had dawdled in the Straits of Florida and the Atlantic while refugee agencies desperately negotiated with the Cuban Government. Off the Florida coast at night its passengers stared long at the lights of Miami. After compelling the St. Louis to leave Havana harbor, President Federico Laredo Bru had offered a temporary haven on the Isle of Pines, pleasure spot and home of the Cuban national penitentiary, provided refugee agencies would post a $500 bond for each individual, a total of $453,500, and further guarantee the cost of Cuban hospitality...