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...tons per year accounted for the presence in Washington of Speaker Manuel Roxas of the Philippine House, President Pro Tempore Sergio Os-mena of the Philippine Senate, and Philippine Secretary of Agriculture Rafael Alunan. They had traveled 11,000 miles to enlist Secretary of State Stimson in a protest. The beet-sugar industry (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah) complains that it cannot meet competition from Cuba and the Philippines. To protect its market, it would raise the world sugar duty from $2.20 to $3 per 100 Ib. Cuba, enjoying a 20% differential, would pay $2.40 per 100 Ib. instead of the present...
...inches; 2) "fanned" George D. Broughman, night watchman along the river; 3) penetrated the "parlors" of Undertaker John Gautier; 4) lodged in two houses on Miami's Flagler St.; 5) aroused hundreds of Miami sleepers; 7) stirred Miami's City Commission to consider a formal protest to Washington...
...Guard, the pursued craft, found stranded and abandoned up the river, was a real rumrunner. Even so, the reckless rattle of Coast Guard bullets stirred afresh the anxiety of many a law-abiding yachtsman who had experienced the service's quick gunfire, its brusque raids, its salty backtalk. Protest after protest against officious bedevilment has been sent to the Coast Guard's squat red-brick headquarters in Washington. Invariably the Service has upheld its men for doing their duty...
...Matheson filed a protest with Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen who took up the matter with Rear-Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard commandant at Washington. Wrote Admiral Billard to Tycoon Matheson: "As your launch was innocently engaged, I express regret . . . but . . . the Coast Guard personnel involved are not censurable in this incident...
...learn, he says, that Hiram Walker is a Canadian whiskey stock. His shock and grief at losing his money were exceeded only by his vexation at learning he had become involved in a liquor business. He sold his stock at a loss and, last week, wrote a letter of protest to the New York Curb Association, the market where Hiram Walker is listed. Loudly he protested that dealings in liquor stocks on U. S. exchanges are, or ought to be, illegal under the 18th Amendment. He demanded a refund of his losses...