Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essence of our national tragedy has been that the section of our new country in which the humane view and way of life developed first should . . . have been forced ... to expend its intellectual energies against the trend of the age, to lose its wealth, and to be left in rum and without its proper and essential influence on the rest of the nation, which sorely needed, as it needs today, what the South had to give." Because "no type of property now owned in the United States is sectional, as slavery property was," Author Adams sees no future irreconcilable conflict...
Quid Pro Quo. Only four tariff concessions did the U. S. make to Cuba: 1) a reduction from 1½ to 9? a lb. on raw sugar; 2) a reduction from $4 to $2.50 a gal on Cuban rum; 3) reductions upwards of 50% on Cuban cigars and tobaccos; 4) reductions averaging about 50% on grape- fruit, lima beans, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, okra, peppers and squash...
...Hide-Out (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Four years ago, gangsters in the cinema were wicked and incorrigible. They beat their women, shot policemen, smuggled rum and ended their careers at the end of a rope or in the gutter. Due to the combined efforts of the Hays organization and Damon Runyon, whose stories have set a new screen fashion, this is no longer true. Lately cinema racketeers have been gentlemen, masquerading sheepishly in wolves' clothes. In Lady for a Day, Little Miss Marker and Midnight Alibi, the heroes were mollycoddle outlaws whose better natures were aroused by old ladies...
Married, Pedro E. Lay Bacardi, 29, rum heir; and Loretta Monahan, 29, one-time telephone operator; in Troy...
...Haiti. Last year he put through a treaty agreeing to get the Marines out of the Garde d'Haiti by Oct. 1 this year. Last April Haiti's cream-colored, egg-shaped President Stenio Vincent called on the U.S. and, between sales talks for Haitian rum and an $11,000,000 refunding loan, got President Roosevelt's word that he could not take his Marines out too soon. Last week President Roosevelt, two months ahead of schedule, proved that he meant what he had said...