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...Sugar (Cuban). House rate: 2.40? per lb. Senate rate: 2? per Ib. Chairman Hawley begged for a 2.40? per lb. duty: "Sugar is the cheapest food we have. This is an industry that needs protection and the additional cost (60? per family per year) is so small it won't be felt." When defeat loomed again, he again tried to compromise at 2.20? per lb. But the House, now thoroughly insurgent against top-notch rates, turned savagely upon bewildered Chairman Hawley, voted (229-to-160) for the low Senate rate, an increase of 24 100? per lb. over...
...first Paris dress. It makes her husband uneasy, herself unusually alluring, other men unusually allured. At a party at the country club she almost forgets she is the mother of two grown children, a respectable matron in a small U. S. town. When she meets Chalke Ewing, a Cuban sugar planter who hates the U. S., the expatriate brother of her best friend, she does forget herself, falls in love with him, and lures him into spending the night with her. But she has him only to lose him; he goes back to Cuba, leaving Nina to look...
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...early age. His first novel, Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, was printed at his own expense, under a pseudonym; it fell flat. His second, The Red Badge of Courage, brought him jobs as war correspondent although until then he had never seen a battle. He served in a Cuban filibustering expedition, the Greco-Turkish War; Spanish-American War. The last few years of his life he lived in England, was a great & good friend of the late great Joseph Korzeniowski (Conrad). No less a pundit than Herbert George Wells has said that Crane's The Open Boat...
...January the Senate voted 4840-38 not to raise the duty on sugar as proposed by the Finance Committee. Last week when Senator Smoot offered an individual amendment to increase the world sugar rate from 2.20¢ per Ib. to 2.50¢ (Cuban: 1.76¢ to 2¢), the Senate reversed its position and adopted 47-10-39 the Smoot Amendment. Reason: legislative trading. Washington's Senators Jones and Dill, for instance, reversed themselves to get a lumber duty. Oklahoma's Senators Pine and Thomas did likewise to get an oil duty. Arizona's Ashurst and Hayden switched for a long...