Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since his lieutenants projected the biggest legislative program in Cuba's history, swart Army Boss Colonel Fulgencio Batista has been trying to keep Cuba's Congress and Senate sitting in their chairs long enough to do something about it. Last month the Congress staged a stand-up strike over patronage, had to be bullied and cajoled back into the White Capitol. Last week Cuba's 36 Senators had stopped work to squabble in heated Cuban fashion over the strange behavior of Senate President Arturo Illas Hourruitinier...
...vote of confidence last week, in the earnest hope that he would resign forthwith, Arturo Illas triumphantly boomed that he would do nothing of the kind. Out in high dudgeon strode just enough Senators to forestall a quorum, leaving a docket choked with 600-odd bills including preparations for Cuba's forthcoming Constituent Assembly...
With both sides appealing to Boss Batista to intervene, the Boss was disposed to caution. Cuba's stoutly independent Supreme Court last week ordered the Senate special tribunal to show why it had refused an appeal to onetime President Miguel Mariano Gomez, whom the tribunal impeached last December for balking at Boss Batista's military school program (TIME...
Sugar's trouble dates back to the World War, when beet production in Europe was severely disrupted. At that time cane producers who are sellers on the world market in London, particularly Java and Cuba, increased acreages mightily. The War over, European beet growers so sprouted behind tariff fences that by 1929 the continental sugar output topped 1913-14 production by 500,000 tons, the world market was glutted...
...single-handed attempt by Cuba to curtail her production in 1926 fizzled as other sugar countries simply increased theirs. The Cuban-sponsored Chadbourne restriction plan, which Manhattan Lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne sold to world producers in Brussels in 1931 behind a smokescreen of U. S. press-agentry, failed from the beginning because quotas agreed upon were too high in face of declining world demand. Typical was the quota asked by Java during the Chadbourne negotiations: 3,300,000 tons per year. Admonished that their country had never produced that much sugar, the Javanese replied: "No, but we will some...