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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havana. It was largely financed by $60,000,000 borrowed from New York's Chase National Bank and $20,000,000 in Treasury notes given U. S. and Cuban contractors. Ephemeral Cuban Governments which followed Machado would have nothing to do with the debts of the "Tyrant." Late in 1933 payments were suspended. Since then U.S. investors have been hopefully holding...
Typical was the condition last week of Tamaulipas State, where incipient outbreaks occurred. Thousands of peons found that bank credit for Mexico's late cotton-planting season was nonexistent. Suddenly, the Government suspended irrigation public-work projects for lack of cash. Discontent was widespread and the Gold Shirts decided on their abortive attempt to stir the unrest into mass revolt. At week's end the President ordered Government jobs provided for them on the Matamoros-Ciudad Victoria highway construction...
Engaged. Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., arty elder son of Motorman Chrysler; to Marguerite ("Peggy") Sykes, Manhattan socialite daughter of the late Broker Waiter H. Sykes...
...harnessing the tide which piles from the Bay of Fundy into narrow St. John's River so fast that a waterfall pours up-stream-a plan later half realized in the unfinished $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy power project; of a heart attack; in Boston. With his brother, the late Hugh Lincoln Cooper, he helped plan the Keokuk, Iowa dam across the Mississippi, Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals power project...
...gasoline motor. Six years later he founded Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., with 17 employes. In three decades he was paying 20,000 workers in the U. S., 20,000 Liberians on African rubber plantations. Last year his company made $9,300,000. Besides Ford, his closest friend was the late great Thomas Alva Edison. A little man, shy, well-groomed, he raised horses, and dairy cows, was an active Episcopalian, left five sons and a daughter...