Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...controversial guardian of price controls on some 8,000,000 items from bubble gum to locomotives, once staffed with 235,000 volunteer workers in 5,561 local boards; by executive order of the President, after a long decline induced by progressive decontrol. OPA's heirs: Department of Agriculture (sugar and rice) ; Office of the Housing Expediter (rents); Department of Commerce (winding up OPA records); Department of Justice (pending enforcement cases...
Long medical practice (at $50,000 a year) has made Grau one of Cuba's best listeners, and he gets many a political earful. One morning last week, six deputations (a women's delegation, veterans, politicians, sugar growers, students, labor leaders) and a succession of individual pleaders poured out their complaints to him. Grau, grey and even more austere than in 1944, heard every...
Despite good times and a boom in sugar, Cubans were griping last week. From scrubby street gamins in Havana's Barrio de Colén to the panama-hatted businessmen in the Manzana de Gémez, they panned Grau for the high price of lard, the scarcity of beef, the roaring black market. There were demands in the press for his resignation. Habaneros tell the story of the Camaguey man who had been badly beaten up for talking about Grau. "Did you say very bad things about him?" asked a sympathetic cop. "No, I praised him, and then...
...Commerce Minister played the black market, the Minister resigned. And Grau, the professed democrat, governs by decree just like Batista. He has an alliance with the Communists that all but the Commies deplore. His attempt to seize for the Government the differential between the 1947 and 1946 sugar prices has alienated 50,000 sugar growers and a large part of his Autentico Party. "Never in the Republic's 45 years," said Sergio Carbo, another ex-Grau man, "has a Government squandered so much, robbed so much, or deceived the people so much...
...hold a number twelve ranking in National Junior competition before the war, and travelled to Florida last winter to participate in the Sugar Bowl tournament. In 1942 he reached the quarter finals of this tournament before bowing to Billy Talbert in extra sets...