Manuel Rionda Y Polledo.
Subject files,
1911-1943.
58.3 linear ft.
(140 boxes)
Series 10 consists of
three, alphabetically arranged, subject files included here as subseries
10a-10c.
Series 10 contains
incoming and outgoing correspondence, reports, comparative data on sugar
production and sales, published materials, internal memoranda, blueprints,
maps, and other records.
Subseries 10a spans
the years 1911 through 1920. It documents the creation of the Manati
Sugar Company and the Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation, Manuel Rionda's involvement
in international regulation of sugar supplies during World War I, the collapse
of the sugar market in 1920, and Czarnikow-Rionda's participation in the
Sugar Finance Committee. The materials in subseries 10a cover
some of the same time periods as materials found in Series 1-5 and 12.
Subseries 10b
was found in a transfile marked "files kept by Mrs. Forbes." Subseries
10b consists primarily of carbon copies of outgoing correspondence from
1920 through 1922. A more complete record of Manuel Rionda's letters
for this time period can be found in Series 2, 3, and 4.
The largest part
of Series 10 is contained in subseries 10c. This subject file replaced
and unified other filing systems used by Rionda. Consequently, it
provides extensive coverage on all of Rionda's diverse concerns.
Subseries 10c begins in 1921 and continues until Rionda's death in September,
1943. The time period includes the Great Depression, the Cuban Revolution
of 1933 (see also Series 11), and the first years
of World War II. The files on each of the Rionda sugar companies
provide detailed information on the operations of the plantations.
There is abundant documentation on the political and social forces that
affected sugar production and marketing. Folders marked "Sugar Finance
Committee, Documents, Lawsuit 1935-1936" were originally part of documentary
evi-dence related to a suit filed by the Cuban government against members
of Czarnikow-Rionda who served on the Sugar Finance Committee. Also
contained in this subseries are materials created by the public relations
firm of Ivy Lee to combat higher sugar tariffs in the 1920s.
Included among
the principal correspondents in Series 10 are Walter E. Ogilvie, the law
firm of Sullivan & Cromwell (which owned stock in many of the Rionda
sugar companies), Albert and Frederick Strauss of J. &. W. Seligman,
Robert B. Hawley, Jose Miguel Tarafa, Miguel Arango, Laureano Falla Gutierrez,
and Thomas L. Chadbourne.
Contents lists
for Series 10a
Contents
lists for Series 10b
Contents
lists for Series 10c