Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux (The Virgin Bride, The Art of Love, Mayerling); and Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican chargé d'affairs in Vichy; both for the second time; in Vichy. Her first was French Cinedirector Henri Decoin; Rubirosa's first was Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the President of the Dominican Republic...
...isolationist cause, has some explaining to do this week. He must tell the stony, fact-minded Internal Revenue Bureau why he did not include in his 1939 income tax return a cool $25,000 he got from Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, the bemedaled millionaire dictator of the Dominican Republic...
...Washington Post recalled that Ham Fish's relations with the Caribbean dictator had taken some curious turns. In 1937 after several thousand Haitian farmers were massacred by Dictator Trujillo's soldiers on the Dominican side of the border, Ham Fish arose in Congress and said: "This is the most outrageous atrocity that has ever been perpetrated on the American continent...
Fifteen months later Ham Fish made a trip to the Dominican Republic. He stayed at the dictator's walled-in estate, ate at his lavish table, came back a changed man. When Trujillo visited the U.S., Ham Fish spoke at a dinner for him: "General, you have created a golden age for your country. . . . You will go down in history . . . as a builder greater than all the Spanish conquistadores together." Shortly thereafter the $25,000 was deposited to Ham Fish's account in a New York bank...
Northbound, the sailing vessels will nibble away at the 4,000,000 tons of sugar awaiting shipment in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the 330,000 tons of Colombian and Central American coffee normally imported each year by the U.S. At transfer terminals in the Lesser Antilles they may even pick up cargoes brought by convoy from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, cutting the convoy voyage by as much as half...