Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea that American recognition of the Mendieta government would prove to be a magic cure-all for the ills of Cuba has been pretty thoroughly punctured by the news that all constitutional guarantees have been suspended as a result of a general strike. There is very little evidence that Mendieta has or ever had the confidence of the country. He owes his accession to power solely to the discriminatory use which the American government has made of the weapon of recognition in order to discredit his predecessors and force their overthrow. The plain fact of the matter is that Cuba...
...back in the impossible position which it found so uncomfortable in the last days of Grau San Martin. The only inference is that any policy which is consistently productive of nothing but failure should be abandoned. It remains to be whether in the event of a new upheaval in Cuba Mr. Roosevelt will have the strength of will to toss the demonstrably unworkable and outmoded Stimson Doctrine into the ashcan which it would certainly grace-better than it does the minds of State Department savants, and recognize as graciously as possible any government howsoever radical that is established. Such...
Floridians were overjoyed. An unusually cold winter in the North, political unrest that had kept people from making their usual visit to Cuba, a dollar devaluation that had made the Riviera too expensive all contributed to this second blooming. Other signs of prosperity...
President Roosevelt recognized this situation when he brought before Congress a lowered tariff and an increased quota for Cuba, and at the same time attempted to decrease the sugar beet production. But the howls of the Smoot coalition were not needed to remind him that the Philippine competition was the nigger in his economic woodpile...
...future, and the islands will turn more and more towards that nation. But what is meat for Japan is not necessarily meat for us, and the loss of the Philippines will certainly prove justifiable economically by the stimulation it will give to our own sugar production and that of Cuba...