Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the former Prince, now the Count of Covadonga, and his wife, a buxom Cuban girl whom he had wooed when both were patients in a Swiss sanatorium, paused in Manhattan last autumn on their way to Cuba, that frail and amiable young man was secretly suffering with an acute pain in his right rump. In Havana the outcast couple rented a modest apartment, all they could afford on the small allowance they get from onetime King Alfonso XIII, who until this year considered his heir's marriage to a Cuban commoner a sin against the royal house...
Last week the Ward Line, now operating as New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co., offered to pay about 400 claimants against it an average of about $3,000 apiece. Of this $1,250,000 total, $890,000 would go to Morro Castle plaintiffs and the balance to Mohawk plaintiffs. In the case of the Morro Castle, which burned in September 1934 with a loss of 124 lives, about 80 suits have been entered for passenger deaths, 30 for crew deaths, 225 for personal injuries. Claims in the case of the Mohawk, which a few months after the first tragedy collided...
...policy of the present administration in a series of steps has been admirable. In December, 1933 President Roosevelt invoked the policy of the "good neighbor", opposed to armed intervention. This was followed by the abrogation of the Platt Amendment, which had given us a treaty right to intervene in Cuba. Finally, in February of this year, he proposed an Inter-American Conference to discuss means of consolidating the peace of the Western Hemisphere; and he showed his sincerity in March by forming a pact with Panama whereby the United States stopped being an officious guardian. The treaty even apologized...
...Sugar, despite the highest sugar prices in years, made $3,571,000 in 1935, a considerable slide from the $4,877,000 profit in 1934. Chairman Earl D. Babst loudly blamed the company's loss of business on Government quotas, declared that import allowances for refined sugar from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines had made refineries hum on those islands while "domestic refineries are working at half capacity...
...dedicated, as was virtually everything else on that occasion, to Henry Morrison Flagler, most brilliant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil partners. Having lavished his brains and his oil wealth on a Florida railroad and Florida hotels, Founder Flagler proposed to open up Cuba and the Caribbean. With a terminal only 92 miles from Havana by car ferry, the Key West Extension was to provide all-rail communication to the Island Republic, and Key West was to become a great port of entry for Central and South American trade. Built in the twilight of Manifest Destiny...