Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Amalie Baruch, 28, niece of Bernard Mannes Baruch; and Polan Banks, 32, Manhattan writer; in Havana's National Hotel. Best man was Cuba's swart little Boss, Colonel Fulgencio Batista...
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...Cuban American were allowed to handle the conversion, they promised to set up a Cuban national currency of 100,000,000 silver pesos. These Promoter Greñas and his bankers said they were ready to furnish at the rate of 5,000,000 a month. Cuba would have 2,500,000 each month as a seigniorage, would pay for the rest by turning over the U. S. and foreign currency captured through Cuba's sizable export balance. With its own currency Cuba could then set up a national bank to furnish Cubans with foreign credit in exchange...
Good Neighbor. Looming behind and above this flurry of fiscal planning last week, however, was still the three-year-old man-to-man fight for Cuba, Fulgencio Batista v. Sumner Welles. In Cuba, Mr. Welles had hoped to make a record which would crown his achievements in the Dominican Republic and Honduras and bring about his dream of becoming Under Secretary of State. Last week Fulgencio Batista was still a hard brown obstacle to that dream. To boss Boss Batista, Sumner Welles would apparently have to do just what Franklin Roosevelt promised not to do on Pan American Day: actively...
Died. Alfred Harris Swayne, 67, General Motors vice president since 1921, board chairman of General Motors Acceptance Corp.; after two months' illness; in Manhattan. In 1898 he assisted in establishing Cuba's national banking system...