Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognition of the increasing importance of inter-American understanding, particularly in the field of culture," the University yesterday announced the appointment of Pedro H. Urena of the Dominican Republic as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...
...school, St. George's in Newport, to lend its buildings. For piano classes with M. and Mme Casadesus, and French diction under Mme Marthe Pillois (widow of a minor French composer), the transplanted Fontainebleau conservatory signed up 25 students, most of them Fontainebleau alumni. Two talented newcomers were Dominican nuns, Sister Ignatia and Sister M. Louisita...
Eire, Canada, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Cuba and the U. S. maintain the only armies in the world of 1940 whose ranks are filled by volunteers. But last week conscription loomed as an imminent reality for the U. S. Never yet has the U. S. had conscription in peacetime, only twice in time of war.* Yet, bulking big in the background for millions of John Does and Richard Roes, peacetime conscription last week cast its unfamiliar shadow over an active week on the U. S. defense front. It was the first big, tough, concrete reality...
Beginning July 1, the Department said, citizens of Canada, Newfoundland, Mexico, Cubs, Haiti, Panama, Bermuda, and the Dominican Republic desiring to enter the United States must have passports from their native governments and visas from the United States. Neither are now required
...plot of 26,685 acres near Sosua, in the north, which has already been improved to the extent of 24 dwellings, a reservoir, 4,950 acres of cultivated pasture land and abundant timber. All this was donated by none other than General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, former President of the Dominican Republic, now dubbed "Benefactor of the Fatherland." Benefactor Trujillo, whose word is still law in the Republic, personally guaranteed the contract; and in a letter to President James N. Rosenberg of the Dominican Republic Settlement Association he maintained that the immigrants would "stimulate the progress of our country," suggested...