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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display was to promote an international memorial to Christopher Columbus. In the Dominican Republic, people seldom speak of Trujillo by name. When they discuss their savior, they find it safer to refer to the local equivalent of "Mr. Jones" (as do Benito Mussolini's subjects). But when Senator Green & companions got home last week, it became clear that Trujillo had also done himself a good turn. Mr. Green regaled his acquaintances with accounts of the seven hospitals, the sanitation, the orderly well-being apparent in Ciudad Trujillo. A correspondent of the Washington News who accompanied the party recorded that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Jones's Relics | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Rhode Island's scholarly, libertarian Senator Theodore Francis Green last week returned to Washington with a warm appreciation of tropic hospitality. Along with New York's Republican Representative Hamilton Fish and Democratic Representative Matthew Merritt, Democrat Green was the guest last fortnight of the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. In Ciudad Trujillo (the General's new name for the venerable city of Santo Domingo), the U. S. delegation looked upon 1) a box (which remained unopened) containing a tiny heap of bone & dust billed as the true "last parts" of Christopher Columbus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Jones's Relics | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Last week Executive Director John H. Baker of the National Audubon Societies surveyed by air a lifeless desert, populated only by spinning whirlwinds of sand and hot ashes, where a green wilderness used to teem with birds-ibis, herons, cranes, ducks, snowy egrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Spring Fires | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Presiding at the meeting was Robert L. Green '39 acting in his position as Second Marshal while Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Emeritus served as usual in his position as honorary judge. The judges were Mr. Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe, Mr. William James and Archibald MacLeish, curator of the Nieman collection of contemporary journalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINALS OF BOYLSTON SPEAKING PRIZE HELD | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

...Sullivan, right winger of the Dartmouth Quad League hockey champions, and Paul Dyer, ranking Big Green Eastern Intercollegiate diver, were elected captains for their respective sports for the 1939-40 season, it was announced yesterday in a release from the DCAC...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Indian Captains Elected | 3/28/1939 | See Source »

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