Word: caning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Women's Press Guild, Daniel Krassner, circus weight guesser, was suddenly confronted by the First Lady of the Land. "This little lady-" he stammered, "she weighs-er-155 Ib." Mrs. Roosevelt then sat on a swinging scale which registered 145 Ib. Guesser Daniel gave her a cane as forfeit...
Louisiana and Florida grow sugar cane as do Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. But production in Louisiana and Florida is relatively small and the insular possessions of the U. S. have no vote in Congress. Politically speaking, the U. S. sugar industry is the sugar beet industry in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, Michigan and California. Sugar beets require an immense amount of hand labor. Therefore beet sugar is more expensive to make than cane sugar. Thirty-seven years ago the beet sugar industry learned how to counteract this disadvantage when it induced Nelson Dingley Jr. of the Ways...
That tariff worked directly against Cuban cane but, much to the chagrin of the sugar beet people, it also benefited Hawaii and Puerto Rico and, after 1913, the Philippines. After the War more and more of U. S. sugar came from the U. S. and its island possessions, less and less came from Cuba. Cuba, who could not sell her products elsewhere, got into much the same sort of trouble as U. S. wheat and cotton producers who lost their foreign markets. To make matters more comfortable for the beet sugar industry the tariff on Cuban sugar was raised...
...Hippodrome seats were cheap (99? top). So was the quality of the performances. But listeners for the season topped 1,000,000. The impresario was Alfredo Salmaggi, a longhaired, high-strung Italian who taught the late Queen Margherita to play the mandolin, carries Caruso's silver-headed cane and specializes in Aïida with horses, elephants, camels...
...outlaw the indictment the Supreme Court declared it valid; 4) last week he and his confidential secretary were in a District of Columbia Court fighting against conviction on charges that might send them both to jail for two years and result in a $10,000 fine. Walking with a cane but otherwise apparently untouched by ravages of age or care, the Bishop last week stepped into the District of Columbia Court House. He took an active part in selecting the jury, nodding his approval before each juror was selected, making notes and prompting his swart lawyer, Robert H. McNeill...