Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the Jones Sugar Control bill: 1) making sugar a "basic commodity" so that a processing tax can be imposed on it; 2) directing the Secretary of Agriculture to limit beet sugar, production to 1,550,000 short tons, cane sugar production in Louisiana and Florida to 260,000 tons; 3) authorizing him to quota sugar imports of Cuba and U. S. island possessions so that total domestic production and imports shall not exceed U. S. consumption; sent it to the Senate...
...Haitians and most U. S. Marine Corps officers agree with President Vincent that Haitian rum is the finest in the West Indies. Aged like Scotch whiskey in empty sherry casks, it is the only rum to be distilled from the whole fresh juice of the sugar cane and not from sugar lees of blackstrap molasses. Because of this fact it is also the most expensive of West Indian rums. Even in Port au Prince good Haitian rum brings $2 a bottle, costs nearly $5 in New York. Because of this fact President Vincent is trying to persuade his countrymen...
Chaplin, Admiral Byrd and Rasputin; a cane made from a log of Abraham Lincoln's cabin birthplace; a cane on which are carved the faces of all Hungary's kings from Attila to Franz Josef. The Earl of Gosford displayed himself and pipes. Authoress Joan Lowell lent some 50 quarter-inch Central American dolls. Others volunteered their stamps, coins, needlepoint pictures, ship models, salt cellars, decoy ducks, penny banks...
...turned it down because of certain conditions attached to their autonomy. The chief premise of their refusal was the sugar tariffs which would naturally be set up against the Philippines as a foreign nation. This economic possibility had won the votes of the American sugar interests, both the Louisiana cane bloc and the Western beet growers headed by Smoot. They had already established a low quota and a high tariff against Cuba and they objected to Philippine free trade in this commodity. There is no question that they were perfectly justified in wishing to end the competition of American...
...most Princeton men were sorry when in 1925 Dr. Howard McClenahan, physics professor and dean of the College since 1912, left to become secretary of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute. Esteemed as an able teacher and wit, he was always ready to stop for a friendly chat on his cane-clumping jaunts about the campus. But he had another, official manner-head back, eyelids drooping, speech slow and precise - which made many an under graduate quake...