Word: canings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sugar & Death. The penalty of Death for anyone caught burning sugar cane was decreed last week by the Machado government after anti-Machado vandals had burned 35,500,000 Ib. of cane in five days in the interior...
...organized an electric power corporation in Santa Clara, built up the property, sold it to U. S. interests at a fat profit. Sugar was his next interest. Buying a mill near Santa Clara he started grinding cane, considered himself almost rich just before the 1920 Cuban sugar panic...
Though he arrived third class, Hubert Fauntleroy Julian was not meanly dressed (see cut). He carried a cane and two pairs of gloves. "The Emperor and I are pals," he said, "and if you reporters doubt the logicability of that I will pay for a wireless to His Majesty...
Mark O. Prentiss, criminologist, prime organizer of the National Crime Commission, returned from lunching with Charles Henry Tuttle, New York Republican Nominee for Governor, to find one Charles Faye, 22, looting his Park Avenue apartment. Noiselessly he snatched a Turkish sword-cane from the wall, forced Charles Faye at the point of it into a seat, made him talk about himself, made him demonstrate how, with strips of vellum and a piece of tin, he had jimmied the apartment lock. When his arm grew tired Mr. Prentiss changed the Turkish sword-cane for an Italian billy. Faye said...
...wonder what it was you saw in him." The picture "showed him in a long frock coat, tightly buttoned, and a tall silk hat cocked rakishly on one side of his head; there was a large rose in his buttonhole; under one arm he carried a silver-headed cane and smoke curled from a big cigar that he held in his right hand. He had a heavy mustache, waxed at the ends, and a saucy look in his eye, and in his bearing an arrogant swagger. In his tie was a horseshoe in diamonds. He looked like a publican dressed...