Word: marti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tossing coins to scrambling urchins. It occurred to one that he could probably climb to the top of the soft, statue in the park; he completed the feat amidst cheers from the youngsters and park idlers. Blearily, he plunked his white hat on the hatless marble head of Jose Marti, the No. 1 hero of Cuba's war for independence. Down below, his drunken shipmates casually relieved themselves among the flowerpots and hedges...
...disgraceful behavior, 200 University of Havana students massed in front of the embassy, fired stones through a window, tried to haul down the U.S. flag, yelled: "Out with the yanquisl" Shirt-sleeved students gave Butler an angry escort as he drove first to the Ministry of State, then to Marti's statue, where he planted a wreath of yellow dahlias (cost: $50, paid by the Navy) and read an apology in English: "[I wish to express my very profound regret at the unfortunate conduct of several sailors of the U.S. Navy." "Out!" snarled the students as the ambassador...
Storms pass quickly in the Caribbean. At week's end, riotous carnival* parades wound their way once more past Marti's statue in Central Park. The warships, with the three culprits in the brig, sailed for home, while the captains pondered measures to make their men behave as disciplined Navy men should. The conservative press pointed out that radio speakers had stirred the people up in "a hysterical manner." Minister of State Carlos Hevia accepted U.S. apologies. But Cubans would not forget the incident for years; the Communists would see to that...
Ignored by the idlers, two sedans turned into the Prado and parked close to the Paseo de Marti branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. The porter was just opening the thick mahogany doors of the one-story limestone building...
Appelles Fenosa, the sculptor who molded the statue Oradour as a reminder to future generations of the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, is not of French nationality as reported [TIME, Dec. 31]. Fenosa is a Catalan, born at Sant Marti de Provençals, near Barcelona, in 1899. . . . When Fenosa was 20 years old [he] went to Paris. He returned to his native Catalonia in 1931. He was awarded several first prizes in sculpture by the Catalan Government. His best known works are Maternity and The Three Graces, of which there is a copy in New York...