Back from Europe last week came tall, handsome Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, the able Manhattan lawyer who undertook to play daddy to the Cuban sugar industry by obtaining a production agreement among the sugar producers of all the world. Long and laborious have been his efforts (TIME, Aug. 18 et seq.). At a conference in Amsterdam he accomplished the difficult task of convincing the men who control the huge East Indian sugar crop. In Brussels he drew an agreement from the beet sugar growers of Europe although all were frightened by the bogey of...
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