Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Winter of 1898 he took the Maine into Havana harbor. The Spanish authorities there were hostile to this country because of the demands that President McKinley was making for Cuban autonomy. The people in the city were many of them hostile to the revolution going on in the outlying districts. On a Sunday Captain Sigsbee and the American Consul General attended a bull fight to discover popular sentiment. Soldiers guarded their box. The situation was tense. On the 15th of February, after the Maine had been in port about two weeks, the Spanish authorities asked the Consul General...
...Leffingwell was more successful in his opposition to the threatened soldiers' bonus bill of 1920. At one time his name was prominently mentioned for Secretary of the U. S. Treasury. Since his resignation from the Government service, he has taken a prominent part in the recent Cuban financing effected in New York, as well as in outlining a plan for the segregation of the railroad and coal properties of the Reading Company...
Ever since a law was enacted by the Cuban Government making American currency legal tender in that country, many Federal Reserve notes found their way into circulation there. This led to the demand that a branch of a Federal Reserve Bank be located in Cuba...
...effect, that foreign ships entering United States territorial waters must not carry liquors caused little actual disturbance although great pyrotechnics in the way of discussion. Foreign ships entered and cleared American ports without liquor, foreign crews grumbled, and foreign governments did nothing-as yet. A few ships stopped at Cuban or Canadian ports to drop their liquor stores, but most arriving vessels had provided in advance for the contingency-that is, by sailing with small liquor stocks. From the State Department came the suggestion that foreign ships might be allowed to bring in liquor under seal-by treaty-if foreign...
...Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board met in Washington behind closed doors in its usual manner, and subsequently departed gravely with only a formal statement to the press. The latter stated that "business is progressing conservatively and on a sound basis," but failed to comment on the proposed Cuban branch of the Boston Reserve Bank-one of the liveliest internal questions in the Reserve system today. The statement also expressed the opinion "that there appeared to be no reason why Federal Reserve Bank rates should be increased at this time...