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As the pinch increased, Trujillo's brother Hector, who is the puppet President, wrote to the "Father of the New Fatherland" and "Financial Emancipator of the Nation" that it would be a "patriotic duty" for the bureaucracy to donate their December salaries to the cause. Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Thin & Pinched | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

The colony of embittered Dominican Republic exiles who cluster around the newsstands in Puerto Rico to snap up exported copies of their home-town newspaper, El Caribe, took fresh heart last week. The 92 pictures of Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, published on the occasion of his 68th birthday, showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Thin & Pinched | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

As the chill statistics on unemployment rose in Detroit, the United Auto Workers' Boss Walter P. Reuther, 51, shivered at the thought of being seen or photographed at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council's traditional week-long session in a palm-fringed winter resort. But the 29 elders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Duress in the Sun | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Full Solarium. In Puerto Rico, two new luxury hotels raised the island's room total to 2,300. But with the U.S. over its recession jitters and in a vacation mood, the total was not enough. The Caribe Hilton rented out its solarium, conference room and doctor's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: Havens of Happiness | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

To keep potentially troublesome university students in line, Trujillo organized the "President Trujillo University Police." Bodies of the few remaining opposition lawyers, students and journalists began cluttering up the usually super-sanitary streets. El Caribe laconically reported that one lawyer was found with every bone in his body broken. "Rumor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Three Men in a Funk | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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