Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he had vainly waited half a century. Lieut. Greely returned from the Arctic to find a civilian upped to the captaincy which he had expected. Quietly plugging ahead, he distinguished himself by laying thousands of miles of telegraph and cable wire in the Philippines, China, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Alaska, directing Army relief work in San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906. He had risen to a major-generalcy when he was retired...
...dying clangor of Cuba's smashed revolution last week arose a cheerful springtime chirping from U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. "Not only has the sugar industry picked up," said this fashionable career diplomat, "but the seasonal fruit and vegetable industry has shown remarkable improvement." Imports from the U. S. for the last quarter of 1934 were up 127%; customs collections for approximately the same period, up 50%; Havana bank clearings, up $60,000,000. All this, however, was just such "imperialistic optimism" as Cuban radicals expect from a U. S. Ambassador to Cuba. Much more remarkable was the fact...
...materiel. Brigadier General Harry Knight, who entered the Army from the New York militia during the Spanish-American War, is G-2 (Intelligence). G-3 (Operations & Training) is Brigadier General John H. Hughes, who got out of West Point in 1897, just in time to be wounded in Cuba. Brigadier General Charles Sherman Lincoln, G-4 (Supply), started out to be a farmer by graduating from the Iowa State College of Agriculture, enlisted in the ranks in 1895, won his commission...
...Complaining that recently built cane sugar refineries in Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines had cut down his volume of business, Chairman Earl D. Babst of American Sugar Refining Co. reported 1934 earnings of $4,877,000, slightly less than in 1933. Just after the close of its fiscal year American Sugar Refining had called in $1,515,000 in bonds due in 1937, completing in 13 years the redemption of $30,000,000 in bonds issued...
Recently returned from turbulent Cuba, an American seaman who was a witness of the recent outbreaks there, has been engaged by the N. S. L. to speak tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common Room on the condition of Cubs...