Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuban student takes after his European brethren in that he is tremendously interested in his own country's politics, while the average American University member possesses a vast indifference to all the proceedings of the State," said A. R. Larrea 1G.B., in an interview yesterday evening...
...student body and the government. Again, of the 5000 students who attended the University of Havana, about 2000 or 3000 were of voting age and had therefore more than an observer's interest in the government. One of the three Law School, in which the workings of the Cuban government are studied, so that little could escape the eyes of the students...
Linton Perry, little Negro boy who lives on a farm south of Macon, Ga., is not smart for his eleven years. Nor can he read or write. But he can do what no other person in the U. S. and only one other (a Cuban) in the whole world, so far as is known, can do. He can pop his right eye out of his head, and draw it back into its socket. If that does not startle the beholder, he will pop out the left eye, then jerk the pair alternately in and out, like the boy & girl...
...went under with liabilities of $266,172.000. Banks accounted for 290, tied-up deposits of $145,700,000. In receivership within the past month or with petitions pending were Ground Gripper Shoe Co., Long-Bell Lumber Corp. (TIME, Feb. 1 ), Western Steel Products, Ltd.. Ari zona Edison Co., Cuban Dominican Sugar Corp., Spreckels Sugar Corp. (TIME, Feb. 1), Cincinnati & Lake Erie Railroad Co., Multicolor, Ltd., Hamilton Gas Co., Hudson River Navigation Corp., Piedmont Utilities Co., American Equities Co., Texas-Louisiana Power...
...today, after reducing her production by one-third, a surplus of 1,540,000 tons. Java, which a year ago had a surplus of 700,000 tons, is likely by the first of April to have a surplus of 1,400,000 tons. And the price of sugar (Cuban raw) is 1.14? per Ib. compared to 1.38? a year ago. All because the world used still less sugar in 1931 than...