Word: linens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horns of Cuba's dilemma last week were the two terra cotta towers of Havana's elaborate Hotel National. There 400 army and navy officers who refused to accept the student-supported government of President Ramon Grau San Martin, some in undershirts, some in crumpled linen suits but all with thumping big pistols at their waists, were marooned, peeling their own potatoes, running the elevators, making the beds. The guests, including U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, had departed. So had the staff, with the exception of two managers who felt a mariner's duty to stick...
...Machado seemed calm, his entourage nervous. At 3:32 p. m. the amphibian roared away. That evening it came down in the lee of Andros Island in the Bahamas. The refugees spent the night aboard, next day flying on to Nassau. There Machado, haggard in his crumpled white linen suit (he had had no time to pack even a suitcase), led his party to the sumptuous, somnolent Royal Victoria Hotel. He ordered tea, whiskey, a bath and a tailor. "I am glad I am with English people," he said. "England understands trouble and my relations with England were always good...
Significant Battleships. Directly after his inaugural Provisional President de Cespedes, still sweating profusely, changed into a suit of white linen, enlivened by glistening tan shoes and an orange-striped shirt. "The people of Cuba desired the re-establishment of normal conditions," he told U. S. correspondents in perfect English, "and they acted almost unanimously in the quick, effective manner necessary to their...
...Craned their necks to peer at Professor Albert Einstein who walked into the distinguished strangers' gallery wearing a white linen suit while his friend, Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson M. P., flayed Hitlerite persecution of Jews, offered a bill to extend to Jewish refugees greater facilities for obtaining British citizenship...
...Midland led the London race with resources of $2,200,000,000. Second was Lloyds with $2,000,000,000. But Barclays Bank lays claim to "world's biggest" because its statements do not include the resources of its controlled Union Bank of Manchester and British Linen Bank (with combined deposits of nearly $240,000.000), nor its vast system of foreign subsidiaries and affiliates. A 249-page handbook is required to list its 2.435 branches in the British Isles, its hundreds of offices scattered through Europe, Africa, the Near East, the West Indies. After the name...