Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That organized cultural relations are essential to hemisphere defense was the opinion expressed by three Harvard professors, yesterday, after returning from Havana...
...Havana one day last week five Cubans boarded a Pan American Clipper, took off on the first leg of a 1,200-mile junket to Washington. Handpicked by President Batista, they were to start negotiations for the possible sale of Cuba's entire 1942 sugar crop-some 4,000,000 tons worth at least...
Advantage to Cuba is that it would help stabilize the island's mercurial economy. But many Cubans (especially sugar growers and grinders) are not too fond of stability when sugar prices are rising. The U.S. negotiators may run into trouble aplenty. In Havana last week, an executive of the Cane Planters Association blasted the plan, declared: "We believe the 1942 crop can be sold advantageously at market prices during the year...
...Arias, dallying in Havana, events had moved much too fast. He moaned that the news of the new Government was "a great surprise," waited for official permission to go back to his country. When permission did not come, he decided to go back anyway. Six days after he had left, the ex-President was on his way back to Panama and almost certain arrest for leaving his country without permission...
Died. Mario Garcia Menocal, 74, twice President of Cuba (1913-21); in Havana. U.S.-educated, he was manager of the giant Cuban-American Sugar Co. plantation at Chaparra when he first entered politics in the early 1900s. Cuba's World War I sugar boom carried him into his second term. His Presidential career and the boom collapsed together...