Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time had Dr. Martinez Fraga thus combined scholarship with diplomacy. In 1919. year before he got his doctorate in civil and public law from the University of Havana, he was attache of the Cuban delegation to the Peace Conference at Versailles. He worked up to Cuba's No. 1 diplomatic post by way of service at the 1928 Pan-American Conference, in the Cuban House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933, and as Minister successively to Belgium, The Netherlands, Great Britain...
...personable, 38-year-old bachelor who keeps trim by riding and fencing, Ambassador Martinez Fraga is sure of gratifying attention from Washington debutantes. Aside from striving to preserve and perhaps to better Cuba's favorable sugar export status against the attacks of U. S. refiners, he can rest his diplomatic worries largely on the "generous and cordial co-operation lent by Your Excellency" for which he thanked Good Neighbor Franklin Roosevelt last week...
That, in effect, sets limits on the amount of sugar U. S. refiners may refine. The price of raw sugar is affected directly by tariffs, which are not uniform, Cuba getting a preferential per lb. levy, other foreign countries paying 1.875^, while U. S. insular possessions like Hawaii and the Philippines ship in sugar duty free...
...apathetic. The entire U. S. cane sugar refining industry, highly mechanized as it is, employs less than 15,000 workers. Housewives and voters are likely to feel that sugar is basically the same whether it comes in barrels or packages, whether it comes from a refinery in Brooklyn or Cuba. Moreover, some 80% of the refined imports flow from the Caribbean, minimizing the probability of interruption of the nation's sugar supply in case...
...apathetic to the Babst propaganda is big Hershey Chocolate Corp. which refines sugar for its candy on its own plantations in Cuba, hence wants no change in tariff or quotas. When the Babst brief appeared last week, Hershey's P. A. Staples, in Cuba inspecting his tropical refineries, hopped to a telephone with a derisive counterattack to U. S. editors. "For the last several years we have been treated to the spectacle of the domestic refiners masquerading as farmers and trying to hitchhike on the farm relief wagon, although all refiners of sugar are solely middlemen who have...