Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things being equal, he would favor career diplomats in appointments over politicians or their friends. Until last week the President had made 26 appointments, of which the career men had secured twelve (including China, Venezuela, Guatemala, Santo Domingo, Costa Rica et al), noncareer men eleven (including Britain, France, Germany, Cuba, Austria) and men betwixt-and-between three (Spain, Holland. Italy...
With great grumpings and whirrings, 156 sugar mills in Cuba last week commenced to grind the 1930 cane crop. Set in motion by a presidential decree, they will work night and day for four months manufacturing some 4,500,000 tons of raw sugar. About the centrals was a new and unexpected enthusiasm. Officers and workers smiled and laughed for they had something to make them happy: the Senate of the U. S. had refused to increase the U. S. customs duty on raw sugar...
Copper Tycoon Harry Frank Guggenheim, whom President Hoover sent to Cuba as Ambassador (TIME, Dec. 2), last week had his baptism by diplomatic fire...
Friends of the arrested editors rushed to the U. S. Embassy, handed the doorman a petition begging Ambassador Guggenheim to invoke the Platt Amendment- imposed by the U. S. on Cuba in 1910- by which the U. S. may intervene to preserve order and republican government...
...Attorney of Cook County once tried with no success to have jai alai banned. Usual odds-on favorite for individual bets is Domingo Ugalde, called "The Fox" because of the sly cuts, curves, angles, backspins he knows how to use. He began playing when he was nine in Marianao, Cuba. He speaks broken, almost unintelligible English. Asked what makes him so good, he points to his head. He is temperamental, histrionic: after losing a close match he has been known to put his fist through a windowpane. Aramendi, Vincente, Garate, Teodoro are other able players, can make Ugalde hump himself...