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...force sufficient to occupy the island. He pointed out that Cuba is 700 mi. long, that many ships were needed to patrol its shore line. No force had been put ashore and none would be unless serious disorders developed. Cuba, he insisted, presented a special case under the Platt Amendment and was by no means to be taken as the keynote of his whole Latin-American policy...
...edged Amendment In Washington harassed State Department officials sighed with relief at this statement which, they hoped, would check any Latin-American tendency to charge the U. S. with again intervening in Cuba under the Platt Amendment. In 1901 the U. S. Senate tacked onto the U. S. Army Appropriation Bill an amendment, later incorporated into the Cuban Constitution, providing that "the Government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence" or for "the maintenance of a Government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty...
...months later, was an old family business, maker of several estimable and well established products: Sal Hepatica, Ipana ToothPaste, Gastrogen Tablets, Ingram's Shaving Cream. The Bristols like Mr. Noble remained in charge of their company, Father William M. Bristol as chairman. Eldest Son Henry Platt Bristol as president, Second Son Lee Bristol as vice president in charge of advertising (known to all advertising men as a past president of the Association of National Advertisers), and Third Son William M. Bristol Jr. as secretary. ¶Dr. Porter's Drug Store in Greensboro, N. C. gave the world...
...Martin, 19, granddaughter of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; and Mahlon Kline Jordan, 21, Philadelphia socialite; in Whitemarsh. Pa. Senator McAdoo flew from Washington to give the bride away, arrived 15 minutes late, had to sit in a rear pew while the bride's stepfather, Clayton Platt Jr.. substituted...
...Platt Amendment to the U. S. Army Appropriation Bill of 1901 provided in part: 1) that no foreign power should ever obtain lodgment in or establish control over Cuba. 2) that Cuba should contract no debt for which the revenues were inadequate. 3) that the United States might intervene to preserve independence, order, and Republican government, and to sec that Cuba discharged her obligations to other nations...