Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the actual bargain must have been whipped into shape in about two months. Only hearing was a three-day session in Washington during July, but there was no public or political wrangle for the good reason that nobody knew what the terms of the forthcoming agreement were. In Cuba and Washington, manufacturers, producers, importers, were given informal hearings. No sworn testimony was taken. Interested parties were allowed to present their views, claims and kicks off the record. Then Assistant Secretary Sumner Welles and his Cuban friends drew up a "treaty" to the ratification of which the Senate does...
...were sitting down in the State Department to pen and ink. There were Dr. Cosme de la Torriente. Cuban Secretary of State, Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling, Cuban Ambassador to Washington, and Secretary Hull. There also were Assistant Secretary Sumner Welles and Jefferson Caffery, the past and present Ambassadors to Cuba. Their purpose was to set their hands and seals upon the first reciprocal trade agreement negotiated under the new tariff bargaining law (TIME, June 18). A few minutes later President Roosevelt at the White House proclaimed that the new tariffs on Cuban products would go into effect in ten days...
Quid Pro Quo. Only four tariff concessions did the U. S. make to Cuba: 1) a reduction from 1½ to 9? a lb. on raw sugar; 2) a reduction from $4 to $2.50 a gal on Cuban rum; 3) reductions upwards of 50% on Cuban cigars and tobaccos; 4) reductions averaging about 50% on grape- fruit, lima beans, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, okra, peppers and squash...
...Telephone Workers Union: "Under no circumstances will the present workers agree to the return of the strikers." He then asked his followers to give Interventor Montoulieu a chance, assured them "If the Government's management proves unsatisfactory we can easily retaliate by paralyzing telephone service throughout Cuba." Said the Interventor: "I will employ common sense. This matter must be settled amicably between Cubans." Suspicious that the Government might intend to lock them out of their jobs, scores of telephone employes refused to go home at night, had their families bring them pillows, food...
...Havana leading U. S. businessmen expressed alarm at the setting of a precedent by President Mendieta which seemed to sweep away security for the U. S. control of U. S. investments in Cuba, but they congratulated ex-Manager Hart on a fat document he had obtained before resigning. In this the Cuban Government assumes liability for damages to the equipment of Cuban Telephone which may occur under its management. Telephone officials said that Interventor Montoulieu will soon find out that Cuban Telephone is not taking in enough money to meet its payroll. They added smugly that the operating deficit...