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Capablanca was born in Cuba 39 years ago. When he was eight he had beaten the best players in Havana. When he was 19 he went to New York to college, at Columbia where he was captain of the chess team...
...business of diplomacy. Such duties Ambassador Judah is financially equipped to perform better than many a diplomat. He inherited substantially from his father, and Mrs. Judah was Dorothy Patterson of the National Cash Register family (Dayton, Ohio). The Judahs will have a month or so to get settled in Havana. Then will come the pan-American conference, at which the new ambassador will be, ex officio, a member of the U. S. delegation and host of his colleagues, the latter perhaps including President Coolidge...
...President Coolidge named Charles Evans Hughes to be head of the U. S. delegation at the Pan-American Congress in Havana, Cuba, in January. Critics of Secretary of State Kellogg's record on Latin-American relations chose to regard the distinguished personnel of this delegation as evidence that President Coolidge is extraordinarily concerned about Pan-American amity. Other observers connected President Coolidge's concern rather with such unfriendly ganda as that reported by Ambassador-to-Peru Poindexter (see Col. 2), than with Secretary Kellogg. The Hughes-headed delegation will be composed of: Ambassador-to-Mexico Dwight W. Morrow, Ambassador...
...same day it was learned that, come Jan. 16, the President intended to return the call made upon him last April by President Gerardo Machado of Cuba by attending the opening session of the sixth international conference of American states in Havana. Should he do so, it-would be only the second time that a U. S. President had left U. S. soil on a diplomatic mission...
...Spain, Spain, Spain, you ought to be ashamed. . . ." People sang the words and waved their caps; the whole country was talking about a terrible thing that had happened. What they knew about the story was this: A big U. S. battleship, the Maine, had rested in the harbor of Havana and there, one soft evening, when the captain was on shore, a greasy Spaniard had externally applied explosives, which had blown a hole through her bottom and had driven her keel upward through her deck. Most of the sailors, 258 of them, and two of the officers had been killed...