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That Mr. Blumenthal is the son of a kosher butcher of San Rafael, Calif.; went to the University of California; left to chase stage celebrities, make his mark in the real estate business; bought and sold $300,000,000 worth of property for Cineman William...
...plump little donkey named Juanita kicked up a mighty rumpus in New England last week, brought pain and embarrassment to the American Red Cross. In the January Junior Red Cross News, monthly journal for children, was a story about a 10-year-old Spaniard named Rafael and a donkey he found abandoned at the foot of a cliff. Uncle Bastiano and Aunt Ana did not care for their nephew's asinine Juanita. On St. Anthony's Eve, Rafael begged a peseta on the road, set out to have Juanita bedecked and blessed next day in front...
...Spaniards resident in Cuba. Quick and hard the Spanish Government acted. In Madrid Foreign Minister Luis de Zulueta made a statement on the killing (which was barred from all Cuban newspapers) and wired urgent orders to Spain's embassy in Havana. Spanish Charge d'Affaires Rafael Forns called immediately on Cuban Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara, sniffed indignantly at the latter's suggestion that all official moves be postponed until after a Cuban "judicial investigation." Next day he delivered his Government's formal note, a message conspicuous for its lack of diplomatic phrases. Its gist...
Still the Porra did not rest, nor did an anti-Machado terrorist organization known as ABC. On Dec. 30 some member of ABC shot and severely wounded Sergeant Rafael Castro of the secret police, a Machado bravo who has been accused of several political murders...
Next it was ABC's turn. Last week in the Almendares district of Havana two U. S. tourists discovered the body of Policeman Francisco Rafael Cepero with his ear cut off, his throat slashed, a bullet in his temple. Tied to his right wrist was a blue tag inscribed: "The ABC will mete out this death to all long-tongued persons." Long-tongued Cepero's crime had been to shout a warning to Chief of Police Major Arsenic Ortiz (who got his present job after being accused with two others of 44 political murders in Santiago) when three...