Word: espaillat
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Last week Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's summer city hall (see p. 12) was mildly excited when a letter arrived from Rafael Espaillat de la Mota, Dominican consul general in New York, announcing that President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina of the Dominican Republic was presenting to Mayor LaGuardia four solenodons. The mayor passed the word to the Park Department, which had never heard of solenodons. When the Barinquen docked with the solenodons, one male had died. Remaining were a male, a female and a baby. Captain Ronald Cheyne-Stout, Director of the Zoo picked up his three bedraggled specimens...