Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bitter controversy. Western beet sugar producers, representing themselves as infant-industrialists, had demanded higher tariff rates aimed at Cuban cane, and a limitation on the free importation of Philippine sugar. The House bill raised the world raw sugar duty from $2.20 to $3 per 100 Ib. which would make Cuba, which already enjoys a 20% differential, pay a tariff of $2.40 per 100 Ib. instead of the present $1.76. Swayed by the protest of Secretary of State Stimson as a onetime Governor-General of the Philippines, the House committee placed no limitation on free sugar imports from the Pacific Islands...
...industry, cried out in protest against the higher sugar duties. It was recalled that in 1924 the U. S. Tariff Commission advised President Coolidge to reduce the sugar duty to $1.23 as ample protection for domestic producers. With an election approaching, the President refused to act. Cane-growers in Cuba (75% of whom operate on U. S. capital) foresaw disaster for themselves, predicted a 2¢ rise in retail sugar prices, urged a "battle of the American sugar bowl." The House was told by Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee that the new sugar duty would encourage domestic production, free...
Congressman Michaelson had passed through Key West 17 months earlier, returning from a junket in Cuba and Panama. Upon his Congressional "free entry" permit, six trunks had been passed without customs inspection by Key West officials. At Jacksonville two of the trunks, dripping with liquor, had been seized, found to contain assorted jugs and bottles of choicest whiskey, brandy, rum (TIME, April...
...reel film portraying activities in the Harvard Botanical Garden in Cuba, one of the most distant outposts of the University, has just been released by the University Film Foundation. The picture, which was made possible by the generosity of Mrs. E. F. Atkins of Belmont who financed the expedition, was photographed by W. O. Field '26 and directed by Professor Oakes Ames...
...Chilean gain. Low prices for silk and rubber resulted in smaller purchases from all Oriental countries except India. The ten countries selling the most goods (millions of dollars) to the U. S. in 1928 were: Canada 489.0 Japan 384.3 United Kingdom 348.4 Germany 222.0 Brazil 220.7 British Malaya 204.3 Cuba 202.7 France 158.7 China 156.6 British India...