Word: domingos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Haiti. One island: two republics. Republic of Haiti: blacks and French mulattos. Dominican Republic: Spanish Creoles, scrambled mulattos, Indians. Dominicans speak Spanish, Haitians hear French. Santo Domingo seems still a 16th Century Spanish town and is the oldest European settlement in the Western Hemisphere. Toussaint L'Ouverture, "The Black Bolivar," won Haitian independence from Emperor Napoleon. Today the U. S. maintains a nebulous protectorate to check the once incessant revolutions at Port au Prince, Haiti. In back country Haiti are congo folk, who practice voodoo rites. Columbus discovered the island and named it "Hispaniola," (Espagnola) Little Spain...
...place the bones of Christopher Columbus in a $4,000,000 memorial lighthouse. To erect the lighthouse in a park near Santo Domingo* already set aside by the Government of the Dominican Republic. To offer $50,000 in prizes for lighthouse designs. Such were details of a project announced, a fortnight ago, by the Governing Board of the Pan-American Union, at Washington. Already the Dominican Government has appropriated $300,000. The rest will be raised by general appeals throughout the Americas...
...have been living in this country for quite a number of years and was an eye-witness in many occasions of your soldiers' deeds in San Domingo. In less than three years, more than 3,000 natives were assassinated because of simple suspicion of being "bandits." In Nicaragua the U. S. Government wish to get hold of certain rights in order to construct another transoceanic canal in the near future in detriment of the Nigaraguan freedom. A few mean politicians will transact with your Government and then the State Department sends soldiers to back the government headed by these...
...Approved lighthouse memorial to Christopher Columbus in Santo Domingo...
...realm live several hundred Americans, Danes and Spaniards, 20,000 Negroes. They plant sugar, have tropic fun. A few of them are disgruntled because the U. S. has not yet granted them citizenship. The population has been steadily decreasing, because of Negro migrations to Haiti, Cuba, Porto Rico, Santo Domingo and New York City...