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Charles Gates Dawes went to Santo Domingo a month ago as a Chicago banker and onetime U. S. Budget Director to devise a budgetary and accounting system for that diminutive republic. When he returned last week to Manhattan aboard the S. S. San Lorenzo he was the newly-appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Retiring Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton, who also returned to the U. S. last week, predicted a "happy and successful term" for Ambassador Dawes...
...Dawes statement, a characteristic one, also registered acutely upon several other consciousnesses. Many a U. S. economist had ministered to the wilting financial systems of other nations before Budgetarian Dawes went to Santo Domingo...
...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...