Word: cubanize
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...American revolution was successful partly through aid from France sent ostensibly by a private company; the Cuban revolution was effected principally by American arms. No one questioned the right of sale of arms to foreign nations at the outbreak of the last war. These actions were taken upon the principle that a nation may sell arms to any purchaser it wishes...
...obtained by the Greeks. A second uncommon plant which we came across was the barilla, the leaves of which glisten as though make of ice. From it the gatherers obtain soda. Specimens of a large, black, spider, is lycosa ingens were found. This spider is smaller than the Cuban tarantula and notable for its coal blackness...
Sued for divorce. Jose Baccardi, " Cuban rum king," by Senora Martha Durand Baccardi, in Manhattan. She charged nonsupport, and added that he " did nothing but drink . . . his own liquor. . . . When he was tired of that he would go to sleep...
...born in Victoria, Tex., in 1864 and claimed to be of Cuban parentage, on account of which he used the Spanish form of his name. He was first a cowboy, then an inspector of customs, cattle trader, cotton raiser. From the cotton and wool business he branched into a scheme for colonizing Mexico with southern Negroes. The colony failed, but he went on; he entered the brokerage business, and went to New York. There he became head of a $10,000,000 water company which served various towns now incorporated in New York City and known as the Bronx. After...
Shortly before the Cuban Senate passed the Tarafa Bill, General Carlos Garcia-Velez (son of the General Garcia of " message-to-Garcia " fame), President of the Veterans' and Patriots' Association, departed hastily from Havana into the lesser known parts of Cuba. With him disappeared General Manuel Despaigne, Treasurer of the organization, who was Secretary of the Treasury in the reform Cabinet until he was expelled last Spring by President Zayas. Dr. Oscar Soto, Secretary of the Veterans' Organization, also went into hiding...