Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson at the London Naval Conference was last week explaining U. S. Navy needs, the U. S. fleet began to assemble at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for winter maneuvers. Well out of public observation, 136 vessels, manned by 100,000 officers and men, will there exhibit to their own satisfaction their sea prowess in attack and defense formation, in target practice, night scouting and all the other simulations of marine warfare. With more than 50 ships already at Guantanamo, the scouting and battle fleets from the Pacific began to pour eastward through the Panama Canal...
...Interborough's 7¢ fare case in the Supreme Court. He was special attorney for John Davison Rockefeller Jr. in his successful ouster of Col. Robert Wright Stewart from the chairmanship of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. He had defended Francis G. Caffey, receiver for the New York & Cuba Steamship Co. Other clients whose cases he carried to the Supreme Court: Victor Talking Machine Co., Beechnut Packing Co., Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., Aetna Insurance Co., Swift & Co., De Forest Radio, U. S. Industrial Chemical Co.. Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Wabash R. R., General Electric Co. When...
...James E. Hancock, president-general of the Society of the War of 1812, denied that the tune was difficult. Said he: "Even the mocking birds in Florida learned the song from the buglers when soldiers were encamped there en route to Cuba in the Spanish...
President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba was initiated into the Miami Temple of the Mystic Shrine, at Havana. Last week President Machado received as "token of esteem" from the Dominican Republic a thoroughbred horse...
Rates. What happened, legislatively speaking, was fairly simple: The present world sugar tariff rate into the U. S. is 2.20? per lb. Cuba, enjoying a 20% differential below the world rate, pays 1.76? per lb. At the demand of cane growers in Louisiana, beet growers in Colorado, Michigan and Utah, the House voted a 3? sugar rate (Cuban: 2.40?). To stifle public outcry against this increase, yet give domestic sugar producers more "protection," Senator Smoot's Finance Committee proposed a world sugar rate of 2.75? (Cuban: 2.20?). Senator Harrison of Mississippi, in the name of U. S. sugar consumers...