Word: tiscornia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commission sailed away, the U. S. Consulate, which had done nothing at all about the jailing of the commission, went to work to do something about Mamie Keselenko and Regina Lazar. They were still sweltering in Tiscornia Immigration Station, clutching their round-trip tickets to Mexico City...
...herded the investigating commission into a corner and with it Mamie Keselenko and Regina Lazar. Late that night they were all led to a pier, their papers confiscated. Two launches ferried them across Havana Bay. On the dark shore they marched uphill, nudged along by submachine guns, to the Tiscornia Immigration Station. Later that night Author Odets was permitted to send a cable to his father in Philadelphia...
...schoolteachers were promptly released and forgotten, but in Manhattan able Playwright Odets was boiling with vivid word-pictures: "The food at Tiscornia was a strange broth of malt and beans. The water had an odd odor. The beds had no mattresses and the bare springs dug into our backs. The crude actions of the Cuban Government and the American Embassy make clear the fear on their part of honest investigation. Ambassador Caffery has a heart of Sugar. Vice Consul Donald D. Edgar played both ends against the middle. He is a fish. I am a Liberal, not a Communist...
Cuba. Provisional President Carlos Mendieta finished his speech at a naval officers' luncheon at Tiscornia Camp across the bay from Havana and sat down. BAM! A huge hole opened in the wall under a stairway, blew a great wind across the room. A seaman and a Navy paymaster stood directly between Mendieta and the stairway. The blast killed both, scratched Mendieta's left hand and wounded a scattering of Cuban officialdom. Said President Mendieta: "It was a terrible surprise but just one of those things." Another of "those things" Spoke two days later from submachine guns...
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