Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Copper Tycoon Harry Frank Guggenheim, whom President Hoover sent to Cuba as Ambassador (TIME, Dec. 2), last week had his baptism by diplomatic fire...
Friends of the arrested editors rushed to the U. S. Embassy, handed the doorman a petition begging Ambassador Guggenheim to invoke the Platt Amendment- imposed by the U. S. on Cuba in 1910- by which the U. S. may intervene to preserve order and republican government...
...Conferred only for "distinguished service to one's country." Other 33rd Degree Masons are: Maj.-General Amos Alfred Fries, onetime Chief of U. S. A. Chemical Warfare Service; Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas; President Gerardo Machado of Cuba...
...Attorney of Cook County once tried with no success to have jai alai banned. Usual odds-on favorite for individual bets is Domingo Ugalde, called "The Fox" because of the sly cuts, curves, angles, backspins he knows how to use. He began playing when he was nine in Marianao, Cuba. He speaks broken, almost unintelligible English. Asked what makes him so good, he points to his head. He is temperamental, histrionic: after losing a close match he has been known to put his fist through a windowpane. Aramendi, Vincente, Garate, Teodoro are other able players, can make Ugalde hump himself...
Eustis Dearborn, of Havana, Cuba...