Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Echoes of the suicide last fortnight of Cuba's Secretary of Justice Roberto Mendez Penate (TIME, April 16) died last week among the funeral dirges for old Alfredo Zayas, Cuba's fourth President, who died naturally (see p. 72). President Mendieta accepted the resignation of Penate's brother Rodolfo as Secretary of Labor and persuaded Secretary-Without-Portfolio Carlos Saladrigas, who had also sent in his resignation, to take the dead Penate's job. Then he called his cabinet into two all-day sessions from which he emerged, pale but triumphant, with three of the smartest...
...basic commodity" so that a processing tax can be imposed on it; 2) directing the Secretary of Agriculture to limit beet sugar, production to 1,550,000 short tons, cane sugar production in Louisiana and Florida to 260,000 tons; 3) authorizing him to quota sugar imports of Cuba and U. S. island possessions so that total domestic production and imports shall not exceed U. S. consumption; sent it to the Senate...
Nashville Vole 6Yankees 1 Cuba 5 Senators 2 Giants 18 Memphis Chicks 1 White Sex 11 Firates 3 Cardinals 2 Reds...
...rums. Even in Port au Prince good Haitian rum brings $2 a bottle, costs nearly $5 in New York. Because of this fact President Vincent is trying to persuade his countrymen to produce a cheaper spirit for export, good enough in quality to compete with the "vulgar" rums of Cuba, Jamaica, Martinique, low enough in price to slide over U. S. tariff walls...
Back to Manhattan last week steamed the biggest boatload of doctors ever to put to sea. There were 375 of them, mostly with wives, and they were returning from 16 days of talking shop, seeing the sights and spreading goodwill in Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Members of the Pan American Medical Association, they had chartered the Panama-Pacific liner S. S. Pennsylvania, turned their Fifth Scientific Congress into a junket...