Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Vandercook plays a detectifiction con-game against an exotic background. A lover of tropic islands (he has visited and written about Haiti, Trinidad, the South Seas), last year he spent three months on Viti Levu, largest of the Fiji Islands. He gives a first-hand picture of its gigantic, fuzzy-haired natives, once cannibals, now peaceable wards of the British Empire; its island-capital, Suva; its still undomesticated rivers, mountains, jungle. Murder in Fiji will cause hardened readers few authentic thrills but should throw them into pleasurable fijits of suspense. After two murders with cannibalistic garnishings, it looks...
Motion pictures taken in Guatemala and Haiti and commented on in English by Karl T. Soule, Jr. '39 will be the feature of an open meeting of the Spanish Club in the Adams House Upper Common Room at 3 o'clock tonight...
...They" told Sailor Roosevelt wrong: first clipper to reach San Francisco was the Samuel Russell in 1850. *Route: San Francisco: Macao; Hongkong; Fenang; Delhi; Bagdad; Cairo; Athens; Rome; Marseille; Seville: Tangier, Morocco; Dakar: Senegal: Natal: Brazil: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Miami; Atlanta; Dallas; Los Angeles; San Francisco...
...ever signs such trade agreements. They are signed by the Secretary of State, authorized to do so under a document called a "Full Power." The customary place of signing is the cold, funereally decorated diplomatic reception room of the State Department. There Cordell Hull has signed agreements with Cuba, Haiti, Belgium. Sweden, Brazil, Colombia.† But because Canada is a far better trade prospect than all those countries combined and because Franklin Roosevelt loves nothing better than a sudden spectacular coup such as a ten-day treaty-hatching, the scene of the signing was transferred to the President...
...fact it was the first time since the Civil War that the Liberals in Canada and the Democrats in the U. S.- both historically the parties of free trade and low tariff-were simultaneously in power. Reciprocal treaties, such as the U. S. has made with Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, Sweden and Belgium, have done little to stir U. S. blood. But Canada normally sells nearly half her exports to the U. S., buys more than half her imports from the U. S. She does more trade with the U. S. than the whole of South America, as much...