Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Cultivating Cuba...
...staff-stubby, genial, bespectacled Carl Chandlee Dickey, onetime Columbia journalism instructor, an editor of World's Work, Mc-Clure's-has in fact little to do with the Havana Post. His function is to lure more U. S. tourists, more U. S. capital to Cuba.* His method: to send writers and artists to Havana. There magnetic Publisher Carl Byoir takes them in hand, makes them see everything, turns them loose to write and draw what they please, confident that the result will be the best type of propaganda for Cuba. Publisher Byoir has frankly assumed the task...
...year Publisher Byoir became the best known, most universally liked American in Cuba, confidant alike of President Gerardo Machado y Morales and Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez of Havana. U. S. investors in Cuba visit Minister Harry Frank Guggenheim first as a matter of form. When their business gets down to brass tacks they "see Byoir," who now almost amounts to President Machado's Department of Commerce...
Harry Frank Guggenheim, air-minded U. S. Ambassador to Cuba, flew his own plane back to Havana from Washington...
...meets Chalke Ewing, a Cuban sugar planter who hates the U. S., the expatriate brother of her best friend, she does forget herself, falls in love with him, and lures him into spending the night with her. But she has him only to lose him; he goes back to Cuba, leaving Nina to look at her husband with resigned but disillusioned eyes...