Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumba (Paramount). Carole Lombard, a $20,000,000 American in Cuba, is sorry Dancer George Raft was chicaned by a counterfeit lottery ticket bearing the same number as her genuine winning ticket. She goes to his dressing room to offer him the money she won, but he misunderstands. Months later after Raft has discovered and made his fortune out of the rumba, a process that involves a good deal of exciting music and exposed brunette flesh, the story wriggles up to a climax in which gangsters threaten to shoot Raft during the opening dance of his new show. His partner...
...half. But two months ago, for technical reasons, short traders on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange could not get enough sugar to fulfill December contracts of 26,450 tons (TIME, Dec. 31). The AAA quotas for Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines had been filled for the year. Cuba had given to U. S. refiners what amounted to an option on the rest of the Cuban quota. Surplus sugar accumulated from other years was not tenderable in fulfillment of Exchange contracts. So the shorts caught in the squeeze defaulted, were ordered to liquidate their contracts with the long interests...
Three other professors will also retire September 1. Milton J. Rosenan, resigning as Charles Wilder Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, organized quarantine units in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The George F. Baker professorship of Economics will be vacated by Charles J. Bullock...
...politics with a charmed life. President Carlos Mendieta last week threw himself to the floor of his automobile as a bomb exploded beside the road. To such unreasoning attacks Mendieta has a stock reply and he made it again last week: "I am ready to resign as soon as Cuba has selected a government to succeed this provisional one over which I preside." Put into office a year ago. Mendieta has scheduled elections for March...
International. Too busy at home to give much attention to foreign policy the Man of the Year nonetheless concluded a new treaty with Cuba which wiped out the Platt Amendment, put U. S. relations with that country on a new basis, improved relations with all Latin-America. From Congress he got power to make reciprocal tariff agreements to promote foreign trade. But up to last week only one such agreement (with Cuba) had been signed. In November U. S. exports were worth $195,000,000 (devalued dollars), up $11,000,000 from a year earlier, although, calculated in old gold...