Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Revolutions broke out in the north and interior of Haiti and were put down, the natives say, by unnecessarily brutal methods. A corvee system was instituted to build roads, but this administration, too, brought bitter complaint. The fact that much of the American personnel spoke no French and most of the natives no English naturally impeded progress and cooperation...
...instant the door was blocked. Brutal with fear the bigger children fought, kicked, trampled the little ones under foot. Inside the theatre 15-year-old Jimmie McVey, operator's assistant, fought to show children to the side door. He could rescue only 30. Fear-crazed youngsters tried to climb up on the wall gas brackets, out of the panic. The brackets broke, flooded the theatre with...