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...sugar prices did not begin to compensate. Cuba's future appeared to hang on negotiations into which Ambassador Welles plunged last week, to permit enough Cuban sugar to enter the U.S. at "Roosevelt prices" to restore living wages among the island's cane cultivators and thus prop up politically the new Government of President de Cespedes. Under no illusions last week as to who could make or break him, small Senor de Cespedes publicly embraced tall Ambassador Welles, lauded him in repeated public eulogies. What Cuba fears is that the U.S. beet sugar producers and the cane sugar...
...nightfall the new Government, consisting as yet only of Dr. de Cespedes, wanted some prop more stable than Cuban soldiers, many of whom were frankly on the loose. Ambassador Welles, constantly in telephonic touch with President Roosevelt, abruptly announced that three U. S. destroyers were steaming full speed for Cuba. With relief Provisional President de Cespedes cried, "The order of President Roosevelt sending three American naval ships to Cuba for the protection of American lives and property was issued with my full knowledge and approval. It carries no implication of intervention...
...murals done by a forgotten painter named Massman. In 1931 the McFarlane heirs gave the sorry pile to Denver University as a landmark of Colorado's brawling past, past enough for Coloradoans to be proud of. But the University could not afford to repair the vast, draughty stage, prop up the collapsing roof. To the rescue came Denver's able, elderly Art Patron Ann Evans, socialite president of Evans Investment Co., daughter of Colorado's second territorial Governor, John Evans. She soon made Central City a Denver socialite fad. To rebuild the Opera House she sold...
Finally Ambassador Bowers caught Premier Azana and delivered his diplomatic punch. Mr. Bowers knew that the Premier could not antagonize the Guardia Civil, chief prop of Spanish law & order under the Republic as it was under the Monarchy, but surely bail-high if necessary-could be arranged? As Minister of War the Premier is Commander of the Guardia Civil. He conferred with its chiefs in Madrid, then cabled orders to Mallorca...
They picked his engine off his neck, His prop from out his belly-o. They sewed him in his uniform, And sent him home to Nelly-o, Crashed plumb to jelly-o- Don't lose your flying speed! He did a bank at ninety feet, It was a kinda foolish thing, And now he is the devil's meat, Or listenin' to the angels sing,- Try to get some altitude! He kicked his rudder right around, When landing cross wind to the breeze, And much to his surprise he found, He had an engine on his knees...