Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Australia complained of the wool duties; Denmark, of those on hides and skins; Italy, on canned tomatoes, olive oil; Mexico, on fresh vegetables; Austria on hats, shoes, glue, tapestries; the Netherlands, on diamonds, glassware, brick; Switzerland, on watches, embroideries; Persia, on rugs; Uruguay, on wool, meats, hides; Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Honduras, on bananas, coffee...
When Mr. Dawes removed his pipe to speak, his words were still those of a dollar doctor, a caustic budgetarian. In words scarcely those of a diplomatist, he announced loudly enough for every foreign country to hear him, that if the Dominican Republic adopted his commission's recommendations it would be the first independent nation to have a thoroughly modern and scientific budget system...
Last week Charles Gates Dawes was defensively preoccupied with the finances of the Dominican Republic. Mulling over matters of revenue, expenditures and interest on foreign loans, he could barely pause long enough to acknowledge publicly the fact that President Hoover had appointed him Ambassador to the Court of St. James's to succeed Alanson Bigelow Houghton, resigned. Congratulatory telegrams which preceded the official message from the State Department he tossed aside impatiently. Newsgatherers finally coaxed this statement from...
...valet. Work, not play, was ahead of them. Budgetman Dawes, in fine fettle, wore a brown striped suit, a brown hat. The smell of his pipe led all visitors directly to his cabin. That newspapers kept referring to his nephew, Rufus C. Beach, Chicago attorney now on the Dominican Commission, as "Rupert Peach" caused him vast amusement. Questions ("Did you convert Marshal Foch from cigarets to a pipe?" "Will you be the next ambassador to Great Britain?") he parried with a gruff "Nothing doing...
Last week. Pan-American Airways, now operating company for Aviation Corp. of the Americas, started to carry passengers and mail from Miami to Nassau among the Bahamas, and from Miami to Havana. Camaguey and Santiago in Cuba, Port-au-Prince in Haiti, Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, and San Juan in Porto Rico...