Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...done last year in Nicaragua. Arrests were only for violation of the 9 p. m. curfew under martial law. President Borno's daughter Madeleine was ceremoniously taken to wife by Daniel Brun, architect. Additional Marines dispatched aboard the U. S. S. Wright were diverted to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while the U. S. House of Representatives moved to give President Hoover the investigating commission he had asked for (TIME...
...legal action but by an agreement with his U. S. rivals. Closely did this follow rumors that German Bosch had been buying stock in U. S. Bosch. Terms of the plan (which will last 49 years) are that in the U. S., its dependencies, Canada. Mexico and Cuba, American Bosch Magneto Co. can use on all its products the magic name Bosch and the German interests must use the full title, Robert Bosch, while in other parts of the world the German's will use Bosch, and the U. S. company American Bosch...
...right and fear no man. Don't write and fear no Congressman. So might Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin of Manhattan have paraphrased the adage when, again last week, he faced the Senate Lobby Committee. President of Cuba Co. with its $165,000,000 invested in sugar plantations, mills, railroads, Lobbyist Lakin went to Washington the first of the year to work against an increased sugar tariff. Cuban planters chipped in to pay his expenses. President Machado of Cuba blessed his activities. So disarmingly had he told his story before that the Lobby Committee praised him for his "frankness...
...great good fortune Mr. Shattuck ... is perhaps Hoover's closest legal friend. He is the personal attorney for Hoover and all his family. I have persuaded him to undertake a confidential mission to convince Hoover ... on behalf of Cuba. . . . Because of Shattuck's prominence and his intimacy with President Hoover, I expect we shall pay Shattuck . . . something like $75,000. . . . His connection with President Hoover is our strongest weapon. . . . President Hoover has taken a direct hand. He has already suggested a possible solution to Senator Smoot and to Mr. Shattuck...
...Shattuck: "Such an impression is untruthful and unfair to the President and myself. Neither I nor any other friend of the President would attempt to use such a friendship in the manner suggested. . . . It would defeat its own purpose. ... I informed Mr. Hoover of my connection [with the Cuba sugar lobby], not to obtain his approval but so that there would be no misunderstanding. I have never sought anything from the President...