Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Cabot Lodge, his opponent in the Senate race, rightly could and did say last week: "More than a year after the end of the war, we confront shortages of sugar, soap, white shirts, clothes for children, while newspapers tell us of factories closing down for lack of raw materials and of automobile companies scrapping their plans to expand. All this in a country which persists in shipping large quantities of many much-desired articles to a country like Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia, in which our own citizens and other friends of human freedom, such as Archbishop Stepinac, have...
...first was the U.S. maritime strike. The second was the great sugar strike. Here Bridges had copied one of crafty old John L. Lewis' tricks. Just as John L. had expanded his Mine Workers by taking farmers, railroaders, etc. in his U.M.W. District 50, so Harry had organized Hawaii's sugar workers into his C.I.O. International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Then they had struck...
...Neither Sugar, Orange nor Cotton...
...sixty-year-old Nicolás Rodriguez Díaz, on his farm in western Cuba, and to some 50,000 colonos (sugar planters) like him, it was startling news. At the cockfight in town, and over a glass of country wine in the bodega afterward, he and fellow colonos talked angrily of raising less cane if they were not cut in on the price rise. Some even heeded the tocsin of the leftist Federation of Campesinos (Farmers), boarded trains and buses for Havana, demonstrated on the Capitolio's steps (see cut). By last week President Grau was reported...
...schools, the farm credit bank, the country roads, and the rest of President Grau's program for raising rural standards of living and abating the tyranny of King Sugar, Nicolás said: "The work the politicians do for the campesino is tomorrow, and I have to live today. I have never received anything from Havana, and don't know of anyone who has. To the politicians the campesino is just a poor campesino, and they let it go at that...