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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...
...just outside the belt of totality, with an obscuration of 99.4%, none of the major expeditions had stationed themselves there. There is a possibility that later reports from points in the interior of Mexico along the path of the eclipse will show that some valuable data were obtained. At Havana, a little to the north of the totality zone, a tropical storm broke just before the eclipse, ruining the prospect. In New York, where the maximum eclispe was 46%, weather conditions were excellent, and many photographs and observations were made by home-staying scientists, and laymen with the usual paraphernalia...
When Cuba needed money (in January, 1921) General Crowder was despatched to Havana by President Wilson as Special Envoy. At the request of the President of Cuba, he was continued as Special Envoy by President Harding. He gave friendly advice, which was followed. The Cuban Government reorganized the Government Departments, effected economies, dismissed grafters. Washington approved a loan of $50,000,000. The Cuban Government was grateful...
...Rear Admiral Charles Dwight Sigsbee, U. S. N., retired. He died last week in Manhattan, where he had lived since his retirement in 1907, and general notice was taken of the death of the man who commanded the Maine at the time of its sinking in Havana harbor...
...late Winter of 1898 he took the Maine into Havana harbor. The Spanish authorities there were hostile to this country because of the demands that President McKinley was making for Cuban autonomy. The people in the city were many of them hostile to the revolution going on in the outlying districts. On a Sunday Captain Sigsbee and the American Consul General attended a bull fight to discover popular sentiment. Soldiers guarded their box. The situation was tense. On the 15th of February, after the Maine had been in port about two weeks, the Spanish authorities asked the Consul General...