Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President John W. Young of Federal Laboratories, Inc. brought gifts for the committee-one wooden model of a Thompson submachine gun, two sample gas bombs, one packet of sickening-gas crystals. On the stand Armsman Young told how in December 1933 he sold President Ramon Grau of Cuba 60 submachine guns while simultaneously negotiating with Colonel Mendieta about another revolution. In return Mr. Young was later retained at $12,000 to reorganize the Cuban police force...
...Durant, the newly appointed Business Manager, has had experience as an engineer in this country and abroad. He has spent three years in Cuba and one in South America, in contracting work on harbors, bridges, railroads, etc. Between 1925 and 1930 he worked with the International Telephone and Telegraph Company during which time he was in charge of the erection of thirty telephone buildings in Spain. He then became a Vice-President of the Postal Telegraph Company, for the South Western division. In 1934 he has been chief engineer of the C.W.A. in New York, in charge of all projects...
...eyes of Bishop Hiram Hulse of Cuba and Father Raymond Egan of The Bronx, the crew "did their duty magnificently . . . were the real heroes of the disaster...
Fortescue is a name that falls readily into headline type. Each member of that socialite family has popped into the public prints in a different way. Major Granville Roland Fortescue, stepson of an uncle of Theodore Roosevelt, was a Rough Rider in Cuba, White House military aide to President Theodore Roosevelt, explorer, World War correspondent, A. E. F. field artillery officer wounded in action. Today he is a prolific fictionist. His wife, patrician Grace Bell Fortescue, is a cousin once removed of the late great Alexander Graham Bell. Their eldest daughter, Thalia Fortescue Massie, got world-wide attention two years...
More notable were the restrictions with which these reductions were hedged about. Cuba's exports of sugar to the U. S. are already quoted by law at 1,900,000 tons a year and tariff reduction will therefore not lead to an increase in the amount of Cuban sugar imported. The reductions in tobacco tariffs are conditioned upon a limitation of Cuban exports to the U. S. to an amount not exceeding 18% of the U. S. consumption during the previous year. And the tariff reductions on fresh fruits will only be effective during the months in which they...