Word: borno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After disturbances a fortnight ago Haiti was last week quiescent. Political organizations asked President Hoover to supply U. S. supervision for the April elections, as was done last year in Nicaragua. Arrests were only for violation of the 9 p. m. curfew under martial law. President Borno's daughter Madeleine was ceremoniously taken to wife by Daniel Brun, architect. Additional Marines dispatched aboard the U. S. S. Wright were diverted to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while the U. S. House of Representatives moved to give President Hoover the investigating commission he had asked for (TIME...
...property; 2) to help support a stable government and suppress cannibalistic bandits; 3) to prevent, by administering the Haitian customs, European creditor nations from interfering in Haiti's affairs. In 1919 occurred an uprising against the U. S. which Haitians claimed cost 3,500 lives. In 1922 Louis Borno became President; in 1927 the Haitian Parliament dissolved...
Last week's troubles originated with a strike in October of students at Damien Agricultural School, whose "bonus" allowances the government had reduced. Anti-Borno politicos seized upon this strike to spread the gospel of unrest through the canebrake country. A general strike began to gather momentum. At the Port-au-Prince customs house, under U. S. control, native employes rioted, broke office furniture and equipment, manhandled U. S. agents. A mob gathered before the National City Bank branch, jeered, threw rocks. Promptly the U. S. High Commissioner, Brig. General John Henry Russell of the Marine Corps, declared martial...
This, the Second School wants to force the U. S. to cease to "domineer"?in Nicaragua, for instance (See NICARAGUA). Another prominent Second Schooler is black President Louis Borno of Haiti who demands "mutual Pan-American respect of liberty, independence and territorial integrity." Another is President Augusto B. Leguia of Peru: "The two Americas, different in origin, will (must) be equal in their final destiny...
...letter in one of your numbers of July with my photograph [TIME, Aug. 23, 1926]. I am again in jail. I have been arrested on June 24. The last time I have not been tried; I will not be tried this time any more. The President of Haiti, L. Borno, said to a representative of the Chicago Tribune that the prisoners will be released when he happens to think of them again. This has been printed in many American papers. For more details, please see the Nation of July 20 (editorial "Poor Haiti...