Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goes. The news, TIME believes, is the General Motors strike in Detroit, and the gold license plates on Dominican Republican President Trujillo's car; the Big Three meeting in Moscow, and a book called yhe Manatee, whose woman author hired a publicity agent to get it published. Trivia or otherwise, it must be significant to get into TIME...
...Dominican who knows the cruelties and oppression to which my countrymen have been subjected for the last 15 years, allow me to thank you for your article of Nov. 19th, and believe me that you could fill page after page with cruelties committed by Trujillo and his henchmen...
...dictator does not filch from the public treasury. That would be picking his own pocket. For Trujillo is the Dominican Republic. His personal monopolies include salt, tobacco, employe insurance, beer...
Petan & Pipi. Many of the dictator's enterprises are divided among his brothers. Swarthy Hector ("El Negro") is Secretary of State for War and Navy, with real estate on the side. Petan specializes in fruit and protection, operates a radio station. Pipi regulates prostitution. Prostitutes in the Dominican Republic are called cueros (hides...
...jitters. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden, no friend of dictatorial bullies, had installed an old foe of Trujillo as the State Department's new chief of the Office of American Republic Affairs. The new man: able, forthright Ellis Briggs, who had been U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, and openly hostile to the Dictator...