Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...raised by the late William Jennings Bryan in 1900 and a Democratic ideal almost realized by the late, great Woodrow Wilson-should turn up as a by-product of a tariff debate might appear a matter of astonishment. But the Philippines and the Tariff have one thing in common-Sugar. Senator King's Utah is a great beet sugar State. Senator Broussard's Louisiana is a great cane-sugar State. The Senators did not argue about imperialism, about the rights of the Filipino, about the ethical or sentimental aspects of independence for the Philippines. They argued about Philippine...
...Sugar Senator Broussard talked, of course, about "unjust: competition." By that he meant the fact that all Philippine products are admitted to the U. S. duty free. Under the Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909 free sugar imports from the Islands were limited to 300,000 tons yearly. Later this restriction was removed. During hearings on the present tariff bill an attempt was made to restore it. This movement was blocked through the influence of Secretary of State Stimson, who, a onetime (1927-29) Philippine governor, said that a tax on Philippine sugar would ruin the Islands. The sugar Senators, arguing...
...more than any other single country. The French Government, indignant at the popularity shown by U. S. cigarets over its own products, last week gave its factories instructions how to duplicate U. S. brands. These directions read: "... Soak the wet leaves in rum for 24 hours, add some brown sugar, some glycerine, chop up the leaves, dry them, pulverize them, add perfume to taste...
Greatest of the Cuban sugar companies is Cuba Cane Sugar Corp., formed early in the War, now controlling 829,500 acres. Yet despite its dominance, Cuba Cane suffered with all the other Cuban producers when their tremendous output was joined by new peacetime crops from Europe. For many a year Cuba Cane has stumbled on, always seeming on the verge of either collapse or sudden success. But coming on Jan. 1, 1930, is an obstacle no company in poor shape could meet-the maturity of $25,000,000 debentures. To surmount this obligation, a complete reorganization was planned, chief feature...
...that such receivership would represent a retention of control and extension of influence by the same group responsible for this magnificent ruin. . . . The receiver proposed (John R. Simpson, president of Cuba Cane, Vice President and Director of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp.) is not qualified as he is not a sugar...