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Floridians were overjoyed. An unusually cold winter in the North, political unrest that had kept people from making their usual visit to Cuba, a dollar devaluation that had made the Riviera too expensive all contributed to this second blooming. Other signs of prosperity...
...this commodity. There is no question that they were perfectly justified in wishing to end the competition of American and Philippine sugar production. But American capital had previously overdeveloped cane plantations in Cuba; and the depression coming pari passu with high tariff was the cause of the present unrest. From the consumer's point of view these tariffs against Cuban sugar are unfortunate; the American growers cannot satisfactorily supply the market demand, and Cuban sugar is cheaper and of a higher grade. If the Philippine production could be cut out of the market, there would be consumption adequate to support...
...want now but they are earnest and sincere and something will grow out of it." Other university officials pooh-poohed the revolt, urged Durham newspapers to ignore it. But many a student and restive alumnus saw more to the affair than a youthful outburst, more to the rumored faculty unrest than the squabbles and jealousies which beset every university administration. Back of it all, they said, was the refusal of Trinity-Duke's longtime ruling triumvirate - President William Preston Few, Vice President Robert Lee Flowers and Dean Wannamaker - to adjust themselves to running a big university instead...
...Napoleon Pelletier of Queens Village have been married 50 years. Mr. & Mrs. John Staudt Jr. have been married seven months. They and 498 other couples renewed their marriage vows at the behest of their pastor, Rev. Bernard J. Reilly. He thought up the idea a year ago to combat unrest and separation, believes it unique...
When General Johnson went to the Midwest last month to stump for the NRA, he was invading a land embittered by falling agricultural prices, pocked by rural unrest. Last week the NRAdministrator made his first swing South. Ten cent cotton had disposed its people favorably toward the President's recovery program. At Atlanta, where he was cheered by 3,500 Georgians, the General was in top forensic form...