Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...double-breasted, Groton and Harvard, snobbish, capable and stiff-about the best man he could have had to take to Buenos Aires. In the long neglected field of Latin-American diplomacy, Sumner Welles is one of the few trained experts of the U. S.-a veteran of negotiations in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, a fluent speaker of Spanish, a man liked by South American diplomats because he years ago attacked the stupid imperialism of past U. S. foreign policy. Cordell Hull's second piece of good fortune was that when his chance came, it was at a moment...
...married a lovely, shrewd little French-Canadian girl, was not unfaithful to her except with native women, piled up a fortune of $35,000. During the Civil War the raiding Alabama destroyed his ship. He enlisted in the Union Army, took his son on a voyage running Chinese to Cuba after the War, fought storms, lost his boy when a plague struck his cargo, returned to the Cape to find that his wife had run off with his wealth...
...Despite Mr. Lewis' original edict that not a line of his script must be changed, Denver was permitted to transfer the Vermont locale to Colorado and in Detroit the action was laid in a factory district. In Tampa, the play was given in Spanish with the action in Cuba. A fat advance sale in most cities indicated that It Can't Happen Here would get a thorough hearing. In Manhattan speculators were selling tickets at prices above the 55? top until chased to cover by WPAgents...
Deserting his family's potent American Smelting & Refining Co.. M. Robert Guggenheim Jr., 25-year-old nephew of one-time Ambassador to Cuba Harry F. Guggenheim, closed up his Salt Lake City house, went to Hollywood, took a job as call boy for Selznick International Pictures...
...Cuban revolt, when Spanish armies had been sent to that island, a popular move for U. S. recognition of the rebels blocked by Fish, the U. S. policy carefully worked out, Grant abruptly asked his Secretary of State: "I hear that Spain is sending troops out to Cuba, is that a fact...