Word: canings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uniforms (cost: $300-$1,000 each), which variously employ the old-fashioned trappings-the plume, the spurred boot, the epaulet and the aiguillette. His manner, too, is regal; one aide carries his special, seven-inch cigars in a leather box; another stands ready to hold his gold-headed cane like a staff of office. A vast, burly man-he stands six feet and his chest measures 44 in.-Magloire carries off his formal appearances with unerring dignity. When on parade he is being what he knows many lowly Haitians want in a President: a father-king, a national bon papa...
...when the Marines supervised an honest election in 1930, picked Lieut. Magloire for his aide-de-camp. But Vincent's government stumbled in 1937, when the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, in a moment of rage, let his forces massacre an estimated 15,000 Haitian cane-cutters who had crossed the border to seek harvest work. The Haitian President settled for an indemnity of $550,000 from Trujillo. With murdered Haitians thus officially priced at $37 each, Haiti soured on Vincent, and his government succumbed in 1941. The next President was Elie Lescot, a member...
...reader who jumped for joy when he read of the English education of Chicago Newsman Ernie Hill's stepson Jona than prise to [TIME, learn that Nov. 2]. "six of It the comes as best"- no six sur wal lops with the headmaster's cane - work wonders with a boy too long exposed to progressive education in U.S. schools...
...tribulations of Foreign Correspondent Ernie Hill in the education of Jonathan may leave him "strictly speechless," but, for my money, not speechless enough ... If little school" Johnny can was hardly tardy 32 be times blamed in for one that year, fact the ... If six wallops with a birch cane were what Jonathan needed (as it turned out, big surprise), let Papa Hill know that birch canes are for sale in New York as well as in Lon don, and it is his legal duty to apply the cane. Is it an indictment of the American public school system that...
Most impressive singing actor on the stage was a Metropolitan debutant. Italy's Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (TIME, Oct. 15, 1951), who drew the meaty role of Mephistopheles. Elegantly brandishing his black sword-cane, he swaggered and leered his satanic way about the stage, and when he flourished his red satin cape, the villagers hit the floor like a wheatfield in a high wind...