Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuba. Most of the investigation's fifth chapter of revelations was about Mr. Wiggin rather than his bank, but the bank -and Mr. Aldrich-came into it strongly on the subject of loans to Cuba. In a secret session of the committee Mr. Aldrich, who was not a Chase official when the loans were made, strongly urged that the subject be pigeonholed in view of the seething Cuban situation. It might lead to more bloodshed. His request leaked out and a Washington newspaper reported that ''Wall Street influences" were trying to keep the Senators from their work...
...Pecora's delving into the accounts of the Chase National Bank has revealed among other things that Cuba's Machado, while a good dummy in his way, charged rather steeply for his services. The loans and advances for which he asked and received, were tidy little fortunes in themselves. There is no question that to the American Sugar Refining Company, and the National City Bank, as well as the Chase, Machado was worth all he got--while in power. Unfortunately, it looked like such a good thing that it will be some time before the Chase, the National...
...went the cork, and Cuba's President Ramon Grau San Martin gratefully drained a glass of champagne last week with Spain's Ambassador Luciano Lopez Ferrer. The occasion was Spain's formal recognition of Cuba's latest government. Spain was the first European nation so to act, though Mexico, Uruguay, Peru and Panama had already done so. ¶Cuba's long-threatened general strike again failed to materialize. President Grau settled himself a little more solidly in the saddle by signing a smart decree. To persuade Cuba's wild-eyed, well-meaning students...
...brother Sosthenes, growing sugar in Puerto Rico, took over the island's decrepit, 250-subscriber telephone system, put it shipshape, combined it with the Cuban system a few years later. In 1920, after a deal with A. T. & T. had enabled them to lay a cable from Cuba to Key West, they formed I. T. & T. When they leaped into world prominence in 1928 by getting control of the Mackay-Postal telegraph system, they had already spun their web over most of South America, rehabilitated the telephones of Paris and Shanghai, helped to precipitate the Spanish revolution by giving...
Bacardi. No one knows who will get the contract for Cuba's rum but nearly every distributor has flirted ardently with the heirs of Founder Facundo Bacardi. At least seven bidders at one time or another have sworn that the agency was theirs. But Facundo Bacardi (pronounced "back-ar-dee'') had 22 grandchildren and most of the 16 living and their various in-laws like to have a hand in running the huge Santiago distillery. As soon as a distributor was certain he had landed the agency, he would discover that another Bacardi was dickering with another...