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Cooper & Robins. Host at the banquet was genial Soviet-famed Engineer Col. Hugh L. Cooper as president of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. Guests paid $5.50 per plate for a dinner which included Beluga Caviar spread thin on toast.† Borsch (beet soup) and Filet of Beef Stroganoff. Guest Litvinoff said that Host Cooper's services "are already inscribed in the geography of the Soviet Union and endure in the concrete of Dnieprostroy" Dam, but he singled out as "probably the oldest friend of the Soviet Union in America" none other than that dramatic victim of amnesia...
...annoying Britain, de Valera last week let to non-Britons the biggest batch of Free State contracts since the great River Shannon hydro-electric project eight years ago. Part of his long-range program to make Ireland self-sufficient, they called for ?600,000 worth of machinery for beet-sugar factories at Mallow, Thurles and Tuam. German and Czechoslovak companies got the contracts in exchange for promises to buy more Irish farm products. When the three new plants are operating next autumn, the Free State need import no more sugar. Next problems: grain, clothing, paper, machinery, chemical products. Insoluble...
...Welles, he charges, has bungled the whole job, mistaken conditions on the Island, and in general pursued a cravenly pacifistic course. It is quite possible that Senator King's advice may be of the greatest value to Mr. Welles. The gentleman from Utah is a representative of the dominant beet sugar interests there; if the Ambassador will only make it a principle always to act in Cuba so that he earns the complete antagonism of the Senator, he can rest assured that he will have done the best that could be done for that sugar-ridden country. CASTOR...
...been ruined on a nationwide scale, driven to suicide and beggary. As the able lawyer representing Cuba's sugar interests, tall, stalwart, snowy-crested Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne put through the International Agreement ("Chadbourne Plan"), running from 1930 to 1935, by which its signatories-Cuba. Java and the European beet sugar bloc (Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Belgium, Jugoslavia)-hoped to win a profitable price for sugar by heroic sacrifices in production. Cuba under Tyrant Machado made the greatest sacrifice, cut her production by 60%, but the ensuing rise in sugar prices did not begin to compensate. Cuba's future...
...great bulk of child labor, however, is on farms. The 1930 census showed that of the 667,118 children under 16 gainfully employed, 469.497 were engaged in agriculture. These ranged from 6-year-old toddlers sweating in the Colorado sugar beet fields to strapping 15-year-olds strong enough to do their father's plowing...