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...indicated that he would support General Wood in the Philippine imbroglio, would soon take a hand in shipping matters, would recognize Mexico, would send General Crowder back to Cuba, would step lightly but firmly...
...agencies was recently increased by the Cuban Congress to 2,000. These posts are an excellent bit of patronage for the President and the party in power. It was the recent increase of the number of agencies and consequent graft which occasioned the summoning of the American Ambassador, General Crowder, to Washington. The other trouble is of even more recent origin. It was occasioned by the passage of the Tarafa railroad bill by the Cuban House of Representatives. This bill provides for a holding company to operate the consolidated railroads of Cuba, and for the closing of 47 " private...
...crisis came with the passage of the Lottery bill by the Cuban Congress over the President's veto. The. Cuban Lottery is a vested interest; Lottery agencies were a notorious source of graft; the President's son is Director of the system of State gambling. General Crowder was passionately opposed to the Lottery. A bill, doubling the number of agencies and making the appointees serve for life, was passed by the Congress, Zayas vetoed it, with the left eye slightly ajar; it was immediately passed over his head, in the Senate by a unanimous vote...
After the Lottery bill was law, the Congress by a joint resolution condemned the U. S. for interfering with the internal affairs of Cuba. General Crowder left for the U. S.; the old graft system is still entrenched; Cuba has her Lottery and $50,000,000 from American bankers...
...woman. Today woman lawyers, though few in numbers compared to men, can be found throughout the fabric of the legal world. From Mabel Walker Willebrandt (one of the United States Assistant Attorney Generals), Judge Florence E. Allen (on the Ohio Supreme Bench), and Edith Newman (advisor to General Crowder in drafting Cuban banking laws) to a multitude of women in private law offices, they are scattered everywhere. When the first convention assembles at Minneapolis, it will have for President Miss Emilie M. Bullowa, of the firm of Bullowa & Bullowa, New York (the rest of the firm being her two brothers...