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...sugar to 500,000 tons per year accounted for the presence in Washington of Speaker Manuel Roxas of the Philippine House, President Pro Tempore Sergio Os-mena of the Philippine Senate, and Philippine Secretary of Agriculture Rafael Alunan. They had traveled 11,000 miles to enlist Secretary of State Stimson in a protest. The beet-sugar industry (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah) complains that it cannot meet competition from Cuba and the Philippines. To protect its market, it would raise the world sugar duty from $2.20 to $3 per 100 Ib. Cuba, enjoying a 20% differential, would...
...Messrs. Roxas, Osmena and Alunan went into conference with Secretary Stimson in his role as onetime Governor-General of the Philippines. Mr. Alunan had once been president of the Philippine Sugar Association and, in his official capacity as Secretary of Agriculture, he foresees only ruin for the Island's industry if the U. S. taxes their chief product. Secretary Stimson was sympathetic. He went before the Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee last week as an evangel for free Philippine sugar...
...David H. Blair of North Carolina as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. ¶ For the first time since Calvin Coolidge Jr., playing upon them, developed a heel blister which went into a fatal infection in 1924, tennis was played last week upon the White House courts. Players: Secretary of State Stimson, Assistant Secretary of State Francis White, White House Physician Joel T. Boone, Director Leo S. Rowe of the Pan-American Union. President Hoover does not play tennis...
...Secretary of State Stimson and Canada's Minister, the Hon. Vincent Massey, had among other matters the following things in common to think about last week...
Prohibition. Minister Massey delivered to Statesman Stimson Canada's formal note of protest against the sinking of the Canadian registered rumrunner I'm Alone, sunk by U. S. Coast Guards men 200 miles off the Louisiana coast (TIME, April 1, et seq.}. Statesman Stim son described the epistle as "temperate and conciliatory." He sat himself down to prepare a reply...