Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidency and now he wants a run for his money. Last week he gave Grau's followers, the National Revolutionary Party, permission to celebrate Grau's arrival. But he was seriously alarmed for his own political life by a demonstration such as has not been given any Cuban politico in a generation...
Signing the sugar control bill (TIME, April 30), the President ordered the duty on Cuban sugar cut from 2? to 1½?a lb. with the proviso that the processing tax imposed should not exceed the tariff cut. Also signed was the Revenue...
...have been receiving TIME for the last four or five years as a Christmas present from my father, and lately when the Cuban press was muzzled, most of our information about Cuba we received from TIME...
That tariff worked directly against Cuban cane but, much to the chagrin of the sugar beet people, it also benefited Hawaii and Puerto Rico and, after 1913, the Philippines. After the War more and more of U. S. sugar came from the U. S. and its island possessions, less and less came from Cuba. Cuba, who could not sell her products elsewhere, got into much the same sort of trouble as U. S. wheat and cotton producers who lost their foreign markets. To make matters more comfortable for the beet sugar industry the tariff on Cuban sugar was raised...
Washington, March 29--The Platt Amendment should be abolished and the Cuban people should be given the opportunity to stand upon their own foot politically Summer Welles, assistant secretary of State and former American Ambassador to Cuba, declared tonight in a speech be- fore the Young Democratic Clubs of America...