Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt ever signs such trade agreements. They are signed by the Secretary of State, authorized to do so under a document called a "Full Power." The customary place of signing is the cold, funereally decorated diplomatic reception room of the State Department. There Cordell Hull has signed agreements with Cuba, Haiti, Belgium. Sweden, Brazil, Colombia.† But because Canada is a far better trade prospect than all those countries combined and because Franklin Roosevelt loves nothing better than a sudden spectacular coup such as a ten-day treaty-hatching, the scene of the signing was transferred to the President...
...policy. In fact it was the first time since the Civil War that the Liberals in Canada and the Democrats in the U. S.- both historically the parties of free trade and low tariff-were simultaneously in power. Reciprocal treaties, such as the U. S. has made with Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, Sweden and Belgium, have done little to stir U. S. blood. But Canada normally sells nearly half her exports to the U. S., buys more than half her imports from the U. S. She does more trade with the U. S. than the whole of South America...
...Otto Herbert Falk, militia general and Marquette University regent, was named receiver. In time Receiver Falk became President Falk, then (1932) Chairman Falk, still sits at the head of the directors' table at a salary of $36,000 per year. He saw Spanish War service in Cuba and Puerto Rico. He omits pomp & ceremony, answers the telephone himself, keeps no one waiting, replied to a newsman's request for an appointment, with a wire reading, "Will be in my office from ten to four tomorrow." Smooth-faced, thin-haired, he offers visitors cigars, smokes an old black pipe...
...graduated from West Point had not the No. 1 man of his class admired the heady way he played football, offered to coach him through. Malin Craig's progress after he left the Academy should give hope to West Point's dullards. He saw active service in Cuba, in the Boxer Rebellion, in the Philippine Pacification. Son of a cavalryman, with a boyhood spent on the Western Plains, he made up for a lack of scholarship with plenty of resource, winning thanks from the entire Chinese population of San Francisco for stowing away and keeping straight a squalling...
...station is devoted to research in tropical vegetation and has been considered the chief laboratory of Harvard botanists. Although the gardens in Cambridge are still used for developing rare specimens, plants have been sent to Cuba as soon as possible...