Word: morro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason why I should not carry out my original plans. I have not been ordered to Havana. ... The Cuban situation will continue to be handled from Washington by the President." Secretary Swanson's junket was further deflated 48 hours later when the Indianapolis swung around Morro Castle and dropped anchor almost over the spot where the Maine was sunk in Havana Harbor. At sight of the big grey man-o'-war excited Cubans along the waterfront began to shout: "Don't welcome these Americans! They've come to kill us." A white launch...
...Major General Leonard Wood ordered the U. S. flag struck over Havana's Morro Castle. Up went the Cuban flag (blue & white stripes, a triangular red field with one white star). Cuba's Independence Day came & went last week and seldom had Cubans felt less independent. In the eastern provinces of Santa Clara, Camaguey and Oriente rebellion was smoldering precisely as it did 40 years ago when Spain was Cuba's tyrant. Some 2,000 insurrectos were hiding out in the hills at war with the regime of Dictator Gerardo Machado. They were mostly well-horsed, wellarmed...
Startled newshawks heard Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson thus announce Nicaragua's Vice-Presidential candidates: "Conservative, Emilia Nocha Morro; Liberal, Rudolfo Espino Sar." Soon came a revised release: Conservative, Emiliano Chamorro; Liberal, Rudolfo Espinosa...
Cuba-loving Author Rubens carries his story through the U. S. war with Spain, through the U. S. military government of Cuba, and closes with a rhetorical description of the Cuban flag rising slowly over Morro Castle. As in a well-behaved cinema, nothing is supposed to follow the supposedly happy...
Porto Rico is a land of mountains, of palms, and banana trees, of tropical storms and tropical beauty. The moss-grown walls of Morro Castle rise out of a wine dark sea at the entrance to San Juan harbor. Through the harbor mouth, by the great Spanish fort, to the land of romance beyond, the land of ebony-haired Spanish girls with flashing eyes, the land of Ponce de Leon and the Conquistadores, the Vagabond goes until the doors of Sever open again. Or, it may be, for a little longer...