Word: domingos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where blood is hot and daggers sharp, Latin temperament turns law clerk into general, army-sergeant into dictator, dictator into corpse. Rafael, the law April 29, 1929 clerk, happened to be "nephew" to the canon of the cathedral. That was powerfully to his advantage; but his friendship for Sergeant Domingo, ancient soldier-philosopher, was to more immediate purpose. For Rafael had had the misfortune to fall in love with Vitoria of the mellifluous eyes, Vitoria whom General Hernandez had marked for his own. With the general Rafael drove, laudably, a bargain: give him and Vitoria one night undisturbed...
From a Brooklyn pier one day last week steamed away the S. S. Coamo, Porto Rico-bound. Aboard her were eleven men who composed a commission going to Santo Domingo to establish a budget system in that little republic.* Chief Budgetman was Charles Gates Dawes, first U. S. Budget Director (1921-22). To limit expenses, most of the Commissioners paid their own bills. Santo Domingo will be billed only $10,000 for the job, which will require from three to six weeks. No Commissioner took a golf club, fishing tackle or a valet. Work, not play, was ahead of them...
...Santo Domingo (pop. 900,000) and Haiti share the same island, named Hispaniola (Little Spain) by Columbus in 1492. Here the Santa Maria grounded, was abandoned...
They plan to proceed to Haiti, San Domingo. Porto Rica, then south through the West Indies to Trinidad where they will visit the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture. From there their course will be west through the Dutch Lesser Antilles to Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama. They will stop in the Panama Canal Zone for Professor Barbour's annual inspection of the Barro Colorado Island Tropical Research Station of the Institute for Research in Tropical America, of which Mr. Barbour is Chairman...
Last week. Pan-American Airways, now operating company for Aviation Corp. of the Americas, started to carry passengers and mail from Miami to Nassau among the Bahamas, and from Miami to Havana. Camaguey and Santiago in Cuba, Port-au-Prince in Haiti, Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, and San Juan in Porto Rico...