Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Small Cuba held up the whole League of Nations one day last week, but Cuba's holdupman was not small. Like some mighty Mutt he roared defiance at a little Jeff from Greece who sought to uphold League prestige. Surveying the somewhat comic champions, spectators beheld: in this corner tall, 175-lb. Senor Don Orestes Ferrara whose regular job is Cuban Ambassador at Washington; in that corner foxy, 135-lb. Dr. Nicolas Politis, agile Athenian word-wangler...
...Greek started the fight, taxed Cuba with being the sole objector to unanimous adoption of the World Court's so-called "Revision Protocol."? Already 24 League states have ratified the change. Indignantly M. Politis rose to declare that "a great effort of international goodwill has been made by all save one state. . . . Though it may not be fitting to criticize that state, does not this most unusual situation require some explanation...
...fair1y bellowed strapping Senor Ferara, while startled Dr. Politis stepped nervously back a pace. "NO? Cuba entered the League regarding it as a society of nations, not as a superstate able to override the sovereignty of any member. . . . My country will not submit to dictation by M. Politis, nor by Greece, nor by any member of the League! ... It seems to me that what M. Politis is doing is making an election speech...
This course, established 10 years ago, offers an opportunity to spread afar the ideals of Perkins Institution. Several of the 120 students who have taken it came from such widely separated countries as Holland, Germany, Alaska, Japan, Hawall, Mexico, Columbia, Porto Rico and Cuba...
...bottom to a shore station. Professor Claude believes that power can be generated at unheard-of cheapness by utilizing the temperature differential between the cold bottom-water and water from the ocean's surface warmed by a tropic sun. Twice he has tried and failed at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, to lower a mile-long pipe six feet in diameter into water nearly one-half mile deep. Both times, subsurface currents and pressures defeated him, sweeping away his costly apparatus (TIME, July 7 et ante). Last week, with 6,000 ft. of experimental pipe, he tried again at Matanzas, this...