Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready followed him to his customary concrete bench against the sea wall. There, opposite the statue of himself and within sight of the monument reared in his honor, His Excellency, Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and Dictator of the Dominican Republic, held his nightly court, with his favorites clustered around...
When Hitler came to power in 1933, a German Dominican named Father Leonard Roth quietly began to oppose him. Within two years, the Gestapo was making it so hot for Father Roth that he fled to Switzerland. In 1943, he slipped back into Germany to carry on his undercover fight against the Nazis. Almost before he knew it, he had landed in the Reich's most notorious concentration camp-Dachau. There he saw a guard beat two of his fellow priests to death...
...swept the floor of the Palazzo Monte Citorio as the Assembly reached the Lateran question. Nobody but Togliatti and the Communists-and they were saving their surprise-was sure how the vote would divide. In the jammed public galleries there was a solemn checkerboard of Jesuit black, Franciscan brown, Dominican white-set off by the bright springtime pinks and blues of .snappily dressed women. The heads that craned forward were alternately tonsured and gaily feather-plumed...
...Overthrew the Liberal Government of President Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, returned ex-President Getulio Vargas to power...
...Marseilles, angel-faced Actress Danielle Darrieux said she was now going to divorce Porfirio Rubirosa (who used to be Dominican charge d'affaires in Vichy) to marry her third, Actor Pierre Louis. When Husband Porfirio paid her a visit, "I made known to him my intention . . ." said she. "He accepted like a gentle-man." Plump, greying Columnist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 48, whose first, second and third marriages lasted, respectively", seven, three and six years, was now separated, after something less than six months, from beauteous Maria Feliza Pablos, 29-year-old grandniece of Mexico's late President Porfirio...