Word: platt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Villa Turicum," a 206-acre Lake Forest estate with 52 -room Italian palace de signed by the late Charles Adams Platt, once worth $2,500,000, went last week in a sheriff's sale to American National Bank & Trust Co., which held judgment against...
...Public Works. Not a cent had been paid to ex-President Machado or other officials. Later Chase Vice President Shepard Morgan admitted that General Enoch Crowder, then U. S. Ambassador to Cuba, had given "a horseback opinion that the $100,000,000 project would be in violation of the Platt Amendment" and that he had "threatened immediate protest to the State Department.'' This particular loan was never made, but not long afterwards while ex-President Machado's son-in-law was a Chase new-business man in Havana on a salary of $19,000 a year, other...
Andover: l.e., Little, Calmers; l.t., Fry, Fletcher, Dubois; l.g., Castle, Schueler; c., Kellog; r.g., Sears; r.t., Hite; r.e., Gernerd, Moody, Stevens; q.b., Burdick, Knowlton; l.h.b., Rafferty, York: r.h.b., Viens, Rafferty; f.b., Platt, Chaney...
...United States, to avoid suspicion of imperialism, has merely been abstaining until conditions in Cuba shout for a mediator, certainly the time for intervention is now propitious. To ignore such wholesale slaughter as has recently taken place on Havana streets will extract what few teeth the much interpreted Platt Amendment has left, and establish a precedent which will make intervention in Cuba by the United States at any future date difficult or impossible...
...force sufficient to occupy the island. He pointed out that Cuba is 700 mi. long, that many ships were needed to patrol its shore line. No force had been put ashore and none would be unless serious disorders developed. Cuba, he insisted, presented a special case under the Platt Amendment and was by no means to be taken as the keynote of his whole Latin-American policy...