Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME of April 23, I note in Foreign Affairs under the heading Cuba, you say: "by raising the minimum for Government employes' salaries to $30 a week...
President Roosevelt, ever apt at Compromise, worked out an agreement aimed to conciliate the beet industry, to help Cuba and regain the U. S. market there. He proposed (TIME, Feb. 19) to quota sugar production for the beet industry and provide import quotas for the U. S. islands and for Cuba. With sugar made a basic commodity and imports controlled, a processing tax would be applied in the U. S. to subsidize beet sugar producers. The quotas which the President proposed were liberal to U.S. producers compared to past performances...
...Cuba Quota (tons) 1,944,000 1932-33 (tons...
...Cuba got the biggest setback but with no vote in Congress she had to be content with what was given her. The Philippines, about to be given their freedom, were in more or less the same predicament, but were more liberally treated to induce them to accept freedom. The others began at once to wrangle. Movements for Statehood took life in both Hawaii and Puerto Rico (see p. 14) as one means of getting a vote in Congress and lobbying for bigger quotas. The beet industry alone was in a position to wrangle at once. When the Jones-Costigan bill...
Said President Carlos Mendieta of Cuba, grateful for small favors: "The bonds of friendship have been strengthened by this aid to our sugar industry...