Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upped, expenditures must come far down. After the meetings the President declared that 1934 appropriations would be reduced by $700,000,000. ¶ President Hoover signed a formal request for the extradition of Samuel Insull from Greece. ¶ Received by the President as the new Ambassador from Cuba was Senor Don Oscar B. Cintas. They made little speeches to each other about the "traditional friendship" between their countries...
...Commerce only looked on, conceding that many transocean flights were worthwhile experiments. But nowadays, with conventional equipment, they are apt to be merely repetitious. Last week the Department took action. Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics Young announced that hereafter every pilot bound for a foreign country (other than Canada, Mexico, Cuba) must have Department authorization. Authorization will be granted only after the countries to be visited have given their permission, and the Department is satisfied with plane, equipment, ability of pilot. Penalty for violation: loss of license...
...meeting last Sunday, applications were filed by the various colleges for the countries which they desire to represent. Last year, the French, Siamese, and Chilean delegations were composed of Harvard men. The Harvard applications this year include Great Britain, Paraguay, Bolivia, Siam, China, Denmark, Australia, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Panama; three of these countries will probably be assigned to Harvard...
...earth . . . the harsh treaties which ended the War . . . the carving of twelve new nations from three old empires . . . the increase of standing armies from two to five million men . . . revolution in China . . . agitations in India . . . Russia's dumping . . . gigantic overproduction of rubber in the Indies, of sugar in Cuba, of coffee in Brazil, of cocoa in Ecuador, of copper in the Congo, of lead in Burma, of zinc in Australia, of oil in the U. S. . . . new wheatlands in the Argentine, new cotton lands in Egypt . . . revolutions in Spain, Portugal, Brazil, the Argentine, Peru, Ecuador, Siam . . . repudiation of debts...
Foreign legations in Cuba have certain current expenses not on most diplomatic budgets. They must always be prepared to give board & lodging to the terrified opponents of crafty President Gerardo Machado y Morales. Last week, fortnight after pro-Machado assassins had retaliated for the murder of Speaker of the Senate Clemente Vazquez Bello with four killings, the asylums were full...