Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt is apparently going to have an early chance to show how sincere he was in his annunciation of a new and more altruistic policy in South and Central American diplomacy. Yesterday in Cuba the government assumed control of the Compania Cubana de Electricitad after the company had failed to come to an agreement with its employees and a strike resulted. The company is an affiliate of the Electric Bond and Share Company and represents an investment of about two hundred million dollars; consequently there is bound to be a terrific howl raised in Wall Street for American intervention...
...Franklin, head of I. M. M. and Frank C. Munson, son of Yankee Walter D. Munson who founded a line to Cuba some 50 years ago, came to terms, agreed that I. M. M. should buy control of Munson Steamship Line, that Son Frank and the Munson organization should move over to the I. M. M. offices and start doing business as one company. Not only the Munson office building at No. 67 Wall St. and the Munson hotels (Royal Victoria and Colonial) at Nassau but also the famed S. S. American Legion, Western World, Southern Cross, Pan America...
...Alberto Giraudy: all but one of the documents presented for signing were in effect blanks! Not having had time to prepare complete documents, the Conference Secretariat had covered with words only the last page of most documents, leaving nearly all the front pages white and empty. "Scandalous!"' cried Cuba's sharp-eyed Giraudy who had been the first to slip out of the Conference into the treaty room. "We are being asked to sign we know not what!" Second Chief Delegate to slip out of the Conference was U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. His speech hailing...
With few friends and little cash, Cuba's President Ramon Grau considered it more important to pay his Army last week than to send to the U. S. $3,950,000 due in interest and arrears on public works loans contracted by deposed Dictator Machado. Bluntly Cuban Secretary of the Treasury Colonel Manuel Despaigne announced that Cuba would default on these obligations "until such time as the whole situation can be thoroughly discussed ... to determine which part if any [of the obligations] is legal." He declared that the $62,000,000 principal of the loans was secured by special...
...accordance with the International Sugar Agreement of 1930, President Grau last week set Cuba's sugar production quota for 1934 and allotted the picayune total of 1,500,000 tons for export to the U. S. There is no way of negotiating for an increase in that allotment until President Roosevelt recognizes the Grau Government. Thus the present allotment effectually sentences Cuba to economic bankruptcy. Everything depended last week on what President Roosevelt's new personal representative, Jefferson Caffery, would...