Word: au
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Stenio Vincent of Haiti is a silver-haired, silver-tongued politician who is supported as loyally by the lesser politicians of Port-au-Prince as he is hated by Haitian exiles in Harlem. His friends say he is a statesman; his enemies call him a dictator; both agree that he likes a pleasant job. Such a job is the Presidency of Haiti...
...prepared to send no blundering politico but one of the ablest career diplomats in the Foreign Service, shrewd, handsome Norman Armour, now Ambassador to Argentina. Mr. Armour's record was a quick index to his ability: posts at Paris (twice). Petrograd, Brussels, The Hague, Montevideo, Rome. Tokyo, Port-au-Prince, Ottawa, Santiago. Buenos Aires, Washington...
...with a greasy lithographer's crayon, on paper. Full of movement, their swirling designs bursting with life, Daniel's drawings would probably have pleased Walt Whitman. The bearded poet appeared in some of the pictures, striding along, flying through the air, loafing and inviting his soul. Salut au Monde! (see cut) showed him crying...
...Over 300 other money-raising outfits collected pennies, dimes, quarters, checks for war relief: Allied Relief Fund, Bundles for Britain, American Friends of France, Queen Wilhelmina Fund, Inc., Foster Parents' Plan for War Children, Le Paquet au Front...
...Au revoir, a bientot, amis d'Ameriquo, until Wednesday evening, (June 5), at ten o'clock (Eastern Daylight Time...