Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troubles closer to home than the East Indica appeared on the southern horizon last night as the Dominican Embassy reported that a three-ship expedition was steaming from Cuba to invade the Dominican Republic. They told newsmen that the "expedition" was composed of two landing barges and one corvette equipped with cannon and machine guns...
...years of power, Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina has never had to worry about winning elections. He has always rigged them so carefully that he was sure to win (TIME, May 12, May 26). But his methods have lost him friends in the hemisphere. The left-wing regime of Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt has never recognized him; Cuban officials have denounced...
Last week, another American neighbor turned on him. Guatemala refused to accept the ambassador proposed by Trujillo, formally broke relations with the Dominican Republic. Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, who never forgets that his country got rid of its own dictator, General Jorge Ubico, in 1944, pointed a democratic finger of scorn. Trujillo, he said, had corrupted "republican practices into monarchical practices." With rigged elections like last May's, he added, Dictator Trujillo could rule "for the next four centuries...
Manhattan Contractor Samuel R. Rosoff takes business wherever he can find it. Last week, "Subway Sam" returned from a beaming visit with ruthless Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Sam, who had his eye on a dam job in the Dominican state of Santiago, babbled chummily about the Benefactor. "He is sometimes called a dictator, but he's not," gushed Sam. "He's the most democratic man. Why, he had me to dinner with him at his home...
...rhapsody is not the only notice the Dominican Republic has had recently in the U.S. A spate of glowing publicity pictures and handouts on Trujillo-land has been cluttering editorial desks. And as his U.S. legal representative (registered with the Department of Justice's Foreign Agents Section), Dictator Trujillo has hired onetime New Dealing Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' Washington law firm (Cummings & Stanley...