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Ready to present a united though ill-defined front, the Cuban, American and Javan interests then journeyed to Brussels to meet the great beet-sugar men of Europe. Only complete harmony in Brussels will assure world sugar stability...
Engaged. Representative Charles Bateman Timberlake, 76, of the 2nd Colorado Congressional district, famed beet-sugar advocate; and Mrs. Roberta Wood Elliott, onetime headwaitress at the George Washington Inn; in Washington...
...were: Republicans Henry Prather Fletcher (chairman), Edgar Bernard Brossard, John Lee Coulter; Democrats Thomas Walker Page and Alfred Pearce Dennis. Chairman Fletcher was a longtime diplomat with no special tariff training. Commissioner Brossard, a carry-over from the old Commission, was accused of being Senator Reed Smoot's "beet sugar" representative in tariff matters...
When the tariff on Cuban sugar was raised this year from 1.76? to 2? per lb., pros and antis agreed on the probable result. Said the pros (mostly U. S. sugar-beet growers): sugar imports will drop, a young U. S. industry will thrive lustily. Said the antis (led by potent Manhattan bankers with investments in Cuba): in competition with duty-free Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines, Virgin Islands, Cuba will be ruined...
Next week a seventh national co-operative is expected to be formed when beet sugar producers from 17 states meet at Greeley...