Word: cubans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...alleviating their present misery. In the face of this there was but one way in which the American supported Mendieta government could hope to keep its head above water, and that was to improve the economic situation with American aid. This it has failed to do; and the Cuban people have inevitably turned back to their former remedies...
...boastful Welker Cochran thought of his principal opponents four weeks ago when he settled down at Manhattan's Capitol Billiard Academy to a three-week defense of his world's three-cushion billiard championship. In his first match, against left-handed Alfredo de Oro, 71-year-old Cuban who was the champion pocket-billiard player 47 years ago, Cochran led at 37-10-36. De Oro made a run of four that included a billiard in which his cue ball touched not the minimum of three cushions before striking the object ball, but five. Then he added five...
...justified in wishing to end the competition of American and Philippine sugar production. But American capital had previously overdeveloped cane plantations in Cuba; and the depression coming pari passu with high tariff was the cause of the present unrest. From the consumer's point of view these tariffs against Cuban sugar are unfortunate; the American growers cannot satisfactorily supply the market demand, and Cuban sugar is cheaper and of a higher grade. If the Philippine production could be cut out of the market, there would be consumption adequate to support both the American and the Cuban planter. Therefore our antiquated...
...Cuban (Cane...
...daring to antagonize Cubans too much by returning at once the properties of Electric Bond & Share's Cuban Electric Co. which ex-President Grau seized and by canceling his 45% rate cut, President Mendieta announced that these matters will be arbitrated...