Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot, the white paper hinted, had the support of the U.S., Venezuela, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic and the U.S. -owned United Fruit Co. Its ob ject: to overthrow the government of President Jacobo Arbenz...
Lordly Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, longtime dictator of the Dominican Republic, has had a generally critical U.S. press ever since 1930-Year One of the Era of Trujillo, as the country's official documents call it. But he has not lacked for private defenders in the U.S. "He can be a charming fellow," one explained recently. "You can get drunk with him, sing songs, swap gamy jokes. The picture isn't all black. He's done a lot of good for the country." El Benefactor Trujillo kept order and paid his debts, the refrain went on, and above...
...Manhattan hotel suite where she began a honeymoon with her fifth husband, Dominican Diplomat-Playboy Porfirio ("Rubi") Rubirosa, five & dime Heiress Barbara Mutton tumbled and broke her left ankle. At her side, bearing up nobly, Rubi was consoled a bit on hearing that the Dominican Republic had reinstalled him at his Paris diplomatic post, which had been yanked out from under him last month. To cheer Porfirio further, the Custom Tailors Guild of America announced that he had beaten out President Eisenhower in a poll of its members to choose America's best-dressed man. Said a Guild official...
...When St. Pius V (1566-72) was canonized. Ascetic Pius V, a friar of the Dominican order, and Inquisitor General for all of Christendom before he became Pope, is chiefly remembered by historians as the Pontiff who made the break between Rome and the Church of England irrevocable by excommunicating Queen Elizabeth...
Married. Barbara Hutton, 41, five & dime heiress; and Porfirio Rubirosa. 44, Dominican playboy-diplomat; she for the fifth time, he for the fourth; in Manhattan (see INTERNATIONAL...