Word: marianao
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Later in the week three students met in a house at Marianao, Havana suburb where Oriental Park racetrack is located. A raid by secret police resulted in their deaths. The youths sold their lives dearly, killing three policemen...
Married. Thomas James Walsh, 73, Montana's senior U. S. Senator, Attorney General in the Roosevelt Cabinet; and Mina Perez Chaumont Truffin, wealthy relict of a Havana sugar broker; in Marianao, suburb of Havana, Cuba...
...Cuban National Lottery will be made bigger, better under a proposed law, is expected to net the Cuban treasury a profit of $10,000,000 next year. At the National Casino in Marianao, Havana, roulette (with two zeroes), Baccarat, Faro, Craps and almost every other gambling game known to man are played, are legal for both sexes. But women are not allowed to attend the better burlesque shows in Havana...
...Attorney of Cook County once tried with no success to have jai alai banned. Usual odds-on favorite for individual bets is Domingo Ugalde, called "The Fox" because of the sly cuts, curves, angles, backspins he knows how to use. He began playing when he was nine in Marianao, Cuba. He speaks broken, almost unintelligible English. Asked what makes him so good, he points to his head. He is temperamental, histrionic: after losing a close match he has been known to put his fist through a windowpane. Aramendi, Vincente, Garate, Teodoro are other able players, can make Ugalde hump himself...
Barlow. After the Spanish War, U. S. Citizen Joseph E. Barlow settled in Havana. He dreamed it might one day be a fashionable winter resort. He helped develop the Marianao residential district, laying water mains on the Cuban Government's promise of reimbursement. He now claims that $122,000 is still owing on this account, that the Cuban Congress has appropriated the money, that President Machado has refused...