Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...religion, they have won their way because they have proved their genius for fine coÖperation in (the common interest." ¶The "White House spokesman" let it be known that the President was somewhat dumfounded by conflicting majority and minority reports of the Tariff Commission on the sugar tariff. Both in fact and in law, the reports seemed to differ; and the President was inclined to send them back for further classification and some sort of agreement. ¶Mr. Coolidge received the Washington American League baseball team at the White House. He told them he wanted to see them...
...economic resources of the Islands are inexpressibly and inexhaustibly rich. Indeed, they have what not only the United States, but every country needs for the cultivation of industry; valuable woods of various kinds, including, of course, the rubber tree; sugar plantations, coconut groves, orange, banana and pineapple farms. The waters teem with fish. Cattle are successfully raised. The land is fer tile. The climate benign...
...Zinoviev maintained that grain must be exported. Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissaries, wavered. War Lord Trotzky thought it the height of folly to flout the people's wishes and recommended export of butter, timber, eggs, flax, oil to the West and of sugar to the East instead of export of grain. No decision was reached...
...service men had to keep away the crowd of tourists who flocked in increasing numbers. Colonel Coolidge has kept a guest book; when the President arrived, it already held 26,732 signatures. The only work which the President took with him was the report of the Tariff Commission on sugar. Nevertheless, temporary executive offices were prepared in a sort of dance-hall-lodge-meeting-room over the village store. It contains four desks, two telephones, four kerosene lamps and one piano. The room directly adjoining it is the room where the President was born, at a time when his father...
...Maria Garcia Menocal, Cuban-born (1867) , was educated in the U.S. at Cornell University, was admitted to Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity (strong nationally and strong at Cornell). During the Spanish-American War he functioned as a fiery guerilla leader. Then he turned his attention to the Cuban American Sugar Co., took charge of the largest sugar estate on the island. In 1912, he was elected President of Cuba on the Conservative ticket. He was reelected in 1916. "Unemotional, quiet, determined, honest, economical, friendly to the U.S. say friends of Menocal...