{"pageProps":{"posts":[{"ID":525,"title":"Fidel Castro","date":"2021-12-21T17:23:47-05:00","categories":["biographies"],"slug":"fidel-castro","excerpt":"Fidel Castro was born in 1926 in the Oriente providence of Cuba.1 During his childhood, Castro attended a Roman Catholic boarding school in Santiago de Cuba....","tags":{"dateTags":["1955-1965"],"labelTags":["bay of pigs","cuban missile crisis","cuban revolution","fidel castro","fulgencio batista","great white fleet","nationalization"]},"featured_image":"https://unitedfruitcompany.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/fidel_castro_1950s.jpg"},{"ID":521,"title":"Joseph McCarthy","date":"2021-12-21T17:07:32-05:00","categories":["biographies"],"slug":"joseph-mccarthy","excerpt":"Joseph McCarthy was born in 1908 in Appleton Wisconsin.1 McCarthy later attended Marquette university for law school, graduating in 1935. Shortly after his g...","tags":{"dateTags":["1945-1955","1955-1965"],"labelTags":["communism","joseph mccarthy","mccarthyism"]},"featured_image":"https://unitedfruitcompany.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/joseph_mccarthy_adjusted.jpg"},{"ID":516,"title":"The Life and Theatrical Death of Eli Black","date":"2021-12-21T16:58:02-05:00","categories":["biographies"],"slug":"the-life-and-theatrical-death-of-eli-black","excerpt":"Eli M. Black Born: April 9, 1921 (Poland) Died: February 3, 1975 (New York City, NY) Black closed the door to his own office. He raised the Venetian blind. 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He ruled th...","tags":{"dateTags":["1900-1910","1910-1920"],"labelTags":["barrios","coup","guatemala","jose pinol","labor","manuel estrada cabrera"]},"featured_image":"https://unitedfruitcompany.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/estradacabrera1916.jpg"},{"ID":290,"title":"The Seldom Recorded Life of Minor Cooper Keith","date":"2021-11-22T16:21:39-05:00","categories":["biographies"],"slug":"the-seldom-recorded-life-of-minor-cooper-keith","excerpt":"Minor Cooper Keith Born: January 19, 1848 (Brooklyn, NY) Death: June 14, 1929 (West Islip, NY) Before Minor Cooper Keith became the head of the Pan-American ...","tags":{"dateTags":["1855-1880","1880-1890","1890-1900","1920-1930"],"labelTags":["andrew preston","costa rica","henry meiggs","minor cooper keith","nicaragua","pan-american railway","railroads","texas"]},"featured_image":"https://unitedfruitcompany.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/minor_cooper_keith_in_1917.jpg"},{"ID":285,"title":"The Life of Edward L. 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During his younger years, Baker lived in Cape Cod and grew up fishing and eventually...","tags":{"dateTags":["1855-1880","1880-1890","1890-1900"],"labelTags":["boston fruit company","elisha hopkins","jamaica","jesse freeman","ld baker and company","lorenzo baker"]},"featured_image":"https://unitedfruitcompany.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/captain-lorenzo-baker.jpg"},{"ID":267,"title":"Andrew Preston","date":"2021-11-12T22:26:06-05:00","categories":["biographies"],"slug":"andrew-preston","excerpt":"Andrew Preston was born in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1846. 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