Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Troubles. Several months ago Cuba floated a loan of $50,000,000 in the U. S. with the understanding that certain reforms would be carried out. The lottery was scheduled for a cleanup. But when the loan was consummated the lottery was not reformed or abolished. It was made worse. This lottery is a Government institution. Thirty per cent, of the sales are appropriated by the Government as revenue. Seventy per cent, are distributed in prizes. Drawings are held three times a month; about 35,000 tickets are sold for which the Government gets $19.40 a piece; the first prize...
...Minister, no Parliament and no likelihood of there being one), received a note from the Diplomatic Corps at Peking on the bandit incident of last May.* The note was signed by the U. S., Great Britain, France, Japan, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba. The imposing document was delivered at the Chinese Foreign Office by Senhor Frei tas, Portuguese Minister to China and doyen of the Diplomatic Corps at Peking. It is difficult to see how the Powers can possibly expect Dr. Koo to take any satisfactory action on the note, because the country...
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...
...Hord has had previous experience in matters financial in Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines...
...following eight Latin American countries have U. S. financial advisers: Colombia, Peru, Panama, Cuba, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Haiti, the Dominican Republic...