Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close friend of Dictator Machado's onetime friend, General Menocal (now of the Opposition), is doughty Sr. Arturo Rente, veteran of the Cuban shooting affrays of 1916. Last week as Sr. Rente sat sipping coffee in a Havana cafe he sneezed, sneezed again, sneezed a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh time, coughed, gasped, spat out a bullet, sighed with relief. The bullet was smooth-polished after spending 15 years lodged in the roof of Sr. Rente's mouth, whence surgeons had dared not remove it. Long ago they predicted it would make Sr. Rente an idiot...
...Denied that T. R. H. Edward of Wales and Prince George were "afraid to land in Havana," when, in mid-ocean last week, T. R. H. suddenly changed their minds about visiting Cuba, just before they were due in Bermuda. At the British Legation Cuban reporters were lamely reminded that "the British Court is in mourning for Princess Louise, the King's sister" (TIME...
Resentment against Dictator Machado's high-handed ways mounted last week to the Cuban Supreme Court bench itself. In a unanimous verdict the court held that his recent decree suppressing Cuba's Spanish language newspapers is unconstitutional...
Back from Europe last week came tall, handsome Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, the able Manhattan lawyer who undertook to play daddy to the Cuban sugar industry by obtaining a production agreement among the sugar producers of all the world. Long and laborious have been his efforts (TIME, Aug. 18 et seq.). At a conference in Amsterdam he accomplished the difficult task of convincing the men who control the huge East Indian sugar crop. In Brussels he drew an agreement from the beet sugar growers of Europe although all were frightened by the bogey of "Russian dumping," a bogey which made cooperation...
...biggest European stock of sugar is in Germany where 812,000 tons are available for export. Czechoslovakia has 761,000 tons; Poland, 428,000; Hungary, 109,000; Belgium, 74,000. By Cuban and Javanese cooperation, a way had been found to eliminate all but 200,000 tons of the 1,350,000 world surplus production. The balance was done away with by cutting Europe's quota from 1,445,000 to 1,229,000, or about...