Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tripoli." The Marine Corps is essentially a soldier outfit, but it is part of the Navy. That fact explains both the length and the breadth of its service. Since 1775 the Corps has served from Sumatra (against pirates in 1832) to Ethiopia (1903); from the Falkland Is-the Dominican Republic and Haiti, "intervened" again & again in Nicaragua. In World War I Marines fired the first...
Caribbean Outposts. Rimming the Caribbean on the north are Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Cuba has a well-trained, well-fed, well-housed, well-equipped Army of 8,000, plus 6,000 Rural Guardsmen and 48,000 reserves. Cuba has also a Navy of 2,000 men, manning two escort ships, five gunboats, an armed transport and six coast-guard ships. Air Force: 116 men, 16 planes. The Dominican Republic's Army, trained by the U. S. Army and Marines, numbers 3,300 men; its Navy consists of four coastal patrol boats and a transport. Haiti...
...Henriquez-Urena is widely known as a poet, literary critic, teacher, and public official. He is a leading authority on Spanish verse, and an outstanding interpreter of Spanish America to the outside world. He has been a high public education official in the Dominican Republic and in Mexico...
...distinguished as a poet, critic, and literary historian, and is especially known as an interpreter of Spanish America to the outside world. He has taught at many universities in the United States, Mexico, and South America, and has been a public education official in Mexico and in his native Dominican Republic...
Instrumental in furthering education in his own country, in Mexico, and in Argentina, Urena has hold the post of general superintendent of education in the Dominican Republic and that of director-general of public education in the state of Puebla in Mexico. He was also the Dominican delegate to the University conference at Montevideo...