Word: loans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crowder was despatched to Havana by President Wilson as Special Envoy. At the request of the President of Cuba, he was continued as Special Envoy by President Harding. He gave friendly advice, which was followed. The Cuban Government reorganized the Government Departments, effected economies, dismissed grafters. Washington approved a loan of $50,000,000. The Cuban Government was grateful...
...February, 1923, General Crowder was given the title of first American Ambassador to Cuba and continued his " housecleaning." President Zayas suddenly showed less concern over the Ambassador's advice than he had before the loan was completed. He called on the Cabinet to resign; all but four were reappointed, but the four were outstanding reformers...
...Senatorial courtesy," which prevented the confirmation of Negro appointees to office, the failure of the Liberian Loan, the failure of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, were condemned. Final resolutions called for the enforcement of the 14th (Negro citizenship) and 15th (Negro suffrage) Amendments to the Constitution, passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, more Negro officeholders in the South, Negro management of Tuskegee National Hospital...
...delegates of Czecho-Slovakia, Yugo-Slavia and Rumania will consider the results of the Lausanne Conference, the application of Greece for membership in their exclusive little coterie, their policy toward the new rulers of Bulgaria and the prospects of a Hungarian international loan...
...Treasury with a salary of $10,000 a year. (The salary of an Assistant Secretary is $5,000; of a full Secretary $12,000.) In this position, next to the highest post in the Treasury Department, he worked out with Mr. Mellon the details of refinancing the Victory Loan and short-term debts...