Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Events of recent weeks testify to the earth faults-earthquakes in Japan and Cuba a fortnight ago, in Chile the prior week, in Alaska concurrently. Argentina and Germany, apparently thrown off bal ance, also quaked. Mt. Vesuvius in Italy, Mt. Krakatoa in the East Indies, seethe...
Meantime although trading in dollar exchange was suspended in London and Paris, unofficial traders in London quoted $3.65 to the pound. Greater repercussions took place in Cuba where after suppressing the news of the bank moratorium in the U. S., President Machado finally declared one for Cuba. When Governor General Theodore Roosevelt cabled from Manila to find out what he should do. the weary Treasury told him to do what he liked. He resigned, handing his office over to Vice Governor John Halliday...
Armed revolts against the Machado Government were admittedly in progress last week in Cuba's eastern provinces, but there seemed to be no coordinating leadership, no Revolution with a big R. Bands of guerrillas raided towns and military outposts, burned plantations, cut wires, dynamited railroad tracks. A bloody skirmish was fought in Camaguey province. In Oriente rebels burned 200,000,000 Ib. of sugar cane at the Manati sugar mill. At Manzanillo a mob stormed the office of Cuban Electric Co. (subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share). Four trains were derailed. Another reached Havana bullet-riddled...
First rebel leader to be featured in dispatches was doughty old Colonel Aurelio Alvarez, veteran of Cuba's War of Independence. Having lost his four sons (killed allegedly by President Machado's secret police) he was reported in the field in Matanzas, heading a well-equipped raiding party...
...Shipman Payson did after he graduated from Yale in 1921 was to marry Joan Whitney, daughter of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Payne Whitney and niece of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Harry Payne Whitney. One of the next things he did was to become interested in taking sugar syrups from Cuba to the U. S. Refined Syrups, Inc. made no money, claimed two engineers, until they suggested to Charlie Payson that he ship syrup sufficiently low in sugar content to dodge the $40-a-ton duty, pay 83? instead. Because this solution fermented within ten days, the engineers told...