Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entrench his new Government (TIME, Aug. 21). Most of Havana was gay and businesslike again, even though shots were heard every few hours as long-oppressed Cubans continued their man hunt to kill every member of ousted Tyrant Machado's detested terrorist squads, the Porra, blamed by all Cuba for countless political murders and ghastly torture of prisoners. Meanwhile the big white Cuban problem which most worried Provisional President de Cespedes, U.S. Ambassador Welles and President Roosevelt was-and seems likely to remain-sugar...
Barometer of Progress. "The destiny of Cuba is in the balance," cried Provisional President de Cespedes last week. "The price of sugar is the barometer of Cuban progress. Without a fair profit Cuba cannot produce sugar and the resources of the Government will diminish." The U.S. sugar stake in Cuba, virtually a one-crop country, can be estimated from the fact that U.S. citizens own through corporate investments nearly 70% of the islands' sugar production. Their sugar bonds, debentures and stocks, bought for some $600,000,000, are worth today less than $50,000,000, and at that...
...President Roosevelt, who originally appointed Mr. Welles Assistant Secretary of State in Charge of Latin American Affairs and then sent him to Cuba as mediator (TIME, May 15) let it be known last week that he wants Mr. Welles back in Washington as soon as practicable to initiate trade negotiations with all Latin American nations, prepare the way for the next Pan-American Conference. On Mr. Welles's return, according to the State Department, Mr. Caffery will succeed him in Havana as Ambassador and will round out a new U.S.-Cuba trade treaty...
...Negotiations with the Cuban Government both as to reciprocal tariff favors and the protection of U. S. investors who now have in Cuba a partially frozen stake exceeding...
...Corruption probably is the chief cause of the trouble in Cuba," said Nevada's Key Pittman, Chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, returning last week from the London Conference. "If the United States should intervene I think other nations would understand." After conferring with the President, Senator Pittman amended: "I expect our warships back soon. The Monroe Doctrine is a thorn in the side of South American nations...