Word: domingos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imports of macaroni rose to 3½ million pounds, most of it from Italy. But the U. S. in the same year exported over 7 million pounds of home-made macaroni to the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, San Domingo, Belgium, Honduras, Panama, China, Japan, Australia...
Hugh Gibson was born at Los Angeles, California, in 1883, has been in the U. S. Diplomatic Corps since he left school. He has seen service in Honduras, England, Cuba, Belgium, France and Santo Domingo. He has held his present position since 1919, the year that the Independence of the Republic of Poland was recognized by the Treaty of Versailles...
...principle. . . . We could not yield to any foreign power the control of the Panama Canal or the approaches to it. ... So far as the region of the Caribbean Sea is concerned ... if we had no Monroe Doctrine we should have to create one. . . . " Our treatment of Cuba, Santo Domingo and Haiti has been designed "not to create, to preclude the necessity of intervention...
Meighan is a first mate on the Brent Line. Miss Lee is the daughter of the House of Brent. After a secret marriage to the mate she stows herself away on a leaky old three-master which he must take to San Domingo. Father Brent follows furiously after in his private yacht. A hurricane breaks - one of the heaviest of the present picture season. But God saves the poor sailors, and father Brent takes his new son-in-law into the firm...
...American army and navy have never been used to subjugate any people or with any wrong intent", he declared. "The Navy and Marine Corps have done wonderful work in Hayti and Santo Domingo. When the new administration came into power a careful investigation was made of conditions in these countries, and it was found that the naval and marine government had made no mistakes, but had greatly improved conditions...