Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a U. S. bootlegger's airplane skidded to a halt in Nassau Harbor last week, a pale, pockmarked, frightened Cuban, Gerardo Machado y Morales, instantly demanded police protection. Nassau's big, black, pith-helmeted police ordinarily carry no firearms, but now rifles were issued to some of them and a guard posted at the Royal Victoria Hotel...
...President Roosevelt decided to send Assistant Secretary of State Jefferson Caffery to negotiate the U.S.-Cuban commercial treaty. Ambassador Sumner Welles will return to Washington about Sept...
...Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes worked like a nailer to 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...
...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...