Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven sons of the late Meyer Guggenheim who emigrated from Switzerland as a boy, made lace in Philadelphia, later built up one of the greatest metal trusts in the world (American Smelting & Refining Co.). Constant aide in his father's metal projects was Daniel. Early he went to Pueblo, dinky distributing town of the southern Colorado Rockies, to plunge the first Guggenheim money into copper. Eventually the Guggenheims held chief influence in three of the world's greatest copper combines, in the nitrate industry of Chile, in the diamond fields of the Belgian Congo. Recently Daniel Guggenheim resigned from association...
Abelardo Pacheco, editor of Voz del Pueblo, small but vociferous Nationalist (antiGovernment) Havana weekly, has lately been shocking conservative Cubans by boldly printing what others dare only think about Cuba's horn-spectacled President General Gerardo Machado y Morales, El Gallo (The Rooster): that he is completely subservient to U. S. big business interests, that all serious political opponents are exiled from Cuba, that political prisoners are thrown to the sharks of Havana harbor from a chute in the Cabana fortress (next to Morro Castle), that though private crime has been spectacularly reduced, political assassination is common...