Word: santiagos
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...coast insurgent workers seized a sugar mill largely owned by Vincent Astor and Percy A. Rockefeller, shut up mill executives, wives and children in their quarters, cut off electricity and water. Fifteen sugar mills in Oriente province, mostly U. S.-owned, had been seized by rampaging Cuban proletarians. In Santiago de Cuba soldiers, miners and Communist agitators heckled Manager Fred Northcross of Bethlehem Steel's Daiquiri Mines until he shouted: "We are closing down-permanently!" In Havana harassed U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles felt obliged to deny rumors that he was hatching a conspiracy to oust President Grau...
...grow angry with Los Ninos ("The Boys") but the great problem was what The Boys were going to do next. There was no leader; every member of the Directorio Estiidiantil had an equal voice. The nearest approach to leaders seemed to be a wild-eyed pair known as Santiago Alvarez and Ysmael Seijas who handed out Springfields and automatic rifles to other shirt-sleeved students, formed a most irregular militia...
...three days a dozen destroyers encircled Cuba, with another dozen awaiting steaming orders. The Mississippi hovered off Morro Castle. All available ships on the Atlantic Coast were on the move. At Quantico the 7th Regiment of Marines, Colonel Richard P. ("Terrible Terry") Williams commanding, studied maps of Havana and Santiago, practiced the "occupation and pacification of towns," while awaiting overseas orders. When a formation of six big Navy seaplanes whizzed over Cuba in a non-stop record flight from Norfolk to Panama natives thought U. S. forces had already intervened...
...Ambassador Welles twice telephoned U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Secretary Hull wirelessed President Roosevelt who, asleep, was gliding up the Potomac on the yacht Nourmahal, his vacation at end. Upshot: a U. S. cruiser and two destroyers hurried to Havana Harbor, one destroyer to Santiago...
...Spanish America) to the saudades of Brazil, the whole Continent weeps and regrets in music; the Indians on their flutes, made from a hollowed human tibia, weep for the Incas, Brazilian Negroes weep for Africa (though they have benefited considerably by their change), the gentlemen of fashion in Santiago weep for Piccadilly, the intelligenzia weep for Moscow, and lovely women for Paris...