Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lived with the Marine Corps through its growth and travails. During the Spanish War, he commanded the Marine Guard first on the Cincinnati, then on the Massachusetts. With 400 men, he camped in the Panama Canal Zone, in 1903-04, while Panama extracted her freedom from Colombia. In the Cuban revolution of 1912, he commanded the U. S. troops who pacified the district of Santiago. In 1914, he took part in the capture of Vera Cruz...
...Coal, according to Mr. Butler, is selling for less than cost, Standard Oil is a philanthropic institution, and the 'Big Five' packers are dead broke. Only the tariff, says Mr. Butler, is protecting the innocent beet sugar trust from the terrible Cuban cane sugar trust, when everybody knows that both are controlled by the same bunch of American financiers...
...sugar-tariff group is composed principally of the importing refiners and a number of large financial interests who have great investments in the Cuban sugar industry. Certain Democrats are with them, except those who come from sugar-producing states, and Senator LaFollette. They argue that, since 'by far the greater share of our sugar is imported, and since it is estimated that sugar makes up as much as 25% of the nourishment taken by this country, it is unjust to tax the great consuming public for the benefit of a few sugar farmers...
...that we accept the invitation with true appreciation of the honor shown us by your Government. May I ask you to convey to the Cuban Secretary of State my acknowledgement of the official recognition of the projected visit of the organization with which I am connected, and my earnest hope that the concerts of the Symphony Society of New York to be given in Havana under the auspices of the 'Sociedad Pro Arte Musical' may not only bring closer together the musical interests of our respective countries, but may serve as a reminder of the friendship in which...
...Maria Garcia Menocal, Cuban-born (1867) , was educated in the U.S. at Cornell University, was admitted to Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity (strong nationally and strong at Cornell). During the Spanish-American War he functioned as a fiery guerilla leader. Then he turned his attention to the Cuban American Sugar Co., took charge of the largest sugar estate on the island. In 1912, he was elected President of Cuba on the Conservative ticket. He was reelected in 1916. "Unemotional, quiet, determined, honest, economical, friendly to the U.S. say friends of Menocal...