Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuba cannot, under the Platt Amendment, regulating Cuban-U. S. relations, set up a bank of issue without U. S. consent...
...Cuba imports and uses U. S. money, has no paper money of her own. In Washington last week the State Department was officially "surprised" when the Cuban Senate approved in principle a bill suddenly presented by one of Dictator-President Gerardo Machado's henchmen, providing...
...Cuban House passed, the Senate was on the point of passing last week, a bill empowering Cuban courts to divorce foreigners on any one of 15 convenient counts "without distinction as to whether the said causes have been produced within or without the Republic of Cuba...
Near Santiago, Cuba, are 10,000 acres of manganese ore. By the Treaty of 1902 no duty can be imposed on manganese imported from Cuba. Hence, properly worked, these deposits could compete without difficulty with U. S. manganese mines. During the past year a corps of engineers has been studying these Cuban deposits, reporting back to the U. S. company which sent it. Last week that U. S. company acted and announced it had bought control of Cuban-American Manganese Corp., allowing the minority interest to remain in the shrewd hands of David Marvin Goodrich, chairman of B. F. Goodrich...
...leading role. She made her way in Hollywood because she was intelligent. She is married to Playwright John Kirkland (Frankie & Johnnie) and has a four-year-old daughter. Few girls from Tenth Avenue have learned to talk and behave as smartly as she can. Last week she was in Cuba, planning soon to go to Europe, where she has never been. Some of her pictures: The Shopworn Angel, The Devil's Holiday, Laughter...