Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Bonilla was breathing the free, cindery air of Manhattan. Pressure from the Mexicans and the strong, but repressed resentment of the Dominican populace had persuaded the Dictator to grant Bonilla another security guarantee. This time he did not stop at the movies...
...their care). He wanted the Indians to be given patient, Christian, religious instruction. Planters and priests alike flatly defied the royal edict. When the Emperor authorized his emissary. Bishop Bartolome de las Casas, to enforce the order, there began a battle between the rugged Bishop and his handful of Dominican friars on the one hand, and the furious planters and renegade clergy on the other, that was not resolved until slavery was abolished in Mexico...
George R. Bernard, Jr. '49--Ellen McCann (Dominican Acad...
...clerks are numerous), play in the French quarter (with its association with 18th-Century Spanish governors), study at Tulane's Department of Tropical Medicine, and take treatment at the Ochsner ("Mayo of the South") clinic. But others are on serious business. Last November an official mission from the Dominican Republic visited New Orleans, arranged for trade that has already upped Dominican imports from the U.S. by way of New Orleans...
Guatemala's Arévalo government also recently introduced a steep profits tax, despite a concession wangled from Ubico forbidding new taxation on United Fruit till 1981. Bargaining is tough. With huge new plantations in the Dominican Republic ready to sprout bananas by 1947, United Fruit can threaten to shut down in Guatemala, as it did in Colombia when disease and the government moved...