Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finding of homes abroad for the Jews. Last week the Committee heard the most encouraging news since its creation: 1) President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Commonwealth offered to take 1,000 refugees annually, plus an unstated number of doctors, engineers and technicians; 2) a delegate of the Dominican Republic announced that his Government could admit 100,000 refugees, provided they had funds; 3) Australia offered to admit 15,000; 4) Paraguay a "limited number," while The Netherlands and British Governments announced investigations examining resettlement possibilities in their colonies...
Last week there arrived in the U. S. an account of a Sunday service at the Circus Krone, a European outfit in London, in which the animals were blessed with full Roman Catholic ritual. Thus a new British organization, the Catholic Circus Guild, made its bow. Dominican Father Cyprian Rice preached a sermon; another Dominican, Prior Antoninus Maguire, sprinkled holy water from an aspergillum on a tiger, a trained Pekingese, some horses and six pretty little albino donkeys. Three large brown bears were brought in, pushed into seats, blessed and photographed, looking clumsily reverent and infinitely...
...Bill ("The Real") McCoy, now living in West Palm Beach, Fla. where he owns an apartment house and builds boats with his brother Ben. He announced last week that in 1934 he had been commissioned by one P. D. Pina Chevalier, an uncle of President Trujillo Molina of the Dominican Republic, to design a $20,000 all-mahogany schooner as a Dominican gift to Franklin Roosevelt. Captain McCoy said the designs were all finished, approved by Mr. Roosevelt, and he was only waiting for suitable mahogany to be found to go to the Dominican Republic and supervise construction. Great...
...Lima showed that they have by no means removed it. Well organized last week was opposition by the ABC powers (Argentina, Brazil, Chile) and other nations to confirming at Lima the proposals for a Little League of Nations and Little World Court, which Colombia and the Dominican Republic introduced out of friendliness to the U. S. at Buenos Aires two years ago. And toward Franklin Roosevelt's program for Continental Solidarity against Fascism, Latin American response has been noncommittal and cautious. Cordell Hull will have to be equally cautious about defining the limits of the Good Neighbor Policy: there...
...negoiations were said to be progressing "favorably" with the Dominican Republic whose minister to Berlin tonight was en route to Munich, perhaps for consultation with Chancellor Adolf Hitler...