Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That drizzly August noon was not such a day for a homecoming as the President had had a month earlier when he drove through the green fields of Maryland to Annapolis to board his ship for a vacation in Haiti, Puerto Rico, Colombia, the Canal Zone and Hawaii. When he departed he needed rest?and he got it. He hoped that, with the spotlight turned off Washington, the country would get a rest, too. But when he landed in Portland last week and was met by an anxious conclave including two members of his Cabinet and two of his White...
...Republic of Haiti was itself again last week. The mid-summer plague of butterflies fluttered down on the custard apple trees. And in a curt ceremony at Port-au-Prince command of the Haitian army passed from Lieut.-Colonel Clayton B. Vogel of the U. S. Marine Corps to a native colonel named Demosthenes P. Calixte. After 19 years of being ruled from Washington, the Republic of Haiti at last had a crack army of 2,500 men without a single U.S. officer. Last week 275 U.S. Marines sailed away. The rest were due to leave next week...
Overshadowed by the World War every-where except in Latin America were the wild events in 1915 when Haiti's black President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam had 200 political prisoners bayoneted in jail, took refuge in the French Legation and was dragged out and murdered by a mob. Two hours later the U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince and began forcibly soothing everybody...
Franklin D. Roosevelt had his fling at Haitian affairs when, as a young Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he had "something to do" with writing the constitution of 1918. When he became President, he resolved to take the U.S. out of Haiti. Last year he put through a treaty agreeing to get the Marines out of the Garde d'Haiti by Oct. 1 this year. Last April Haiti's cream-colored, egg-shaped President Stenio Vincent called on the U.S. and, between sales talks for Haitian rum and an $11,000,000 refunding loan, got President Roosevelt...
...morning shortly after dawn the Houston halted at Hampton Roads to discharge the last batch of official mail, before passing out between Capes Henry and Charles. Ahead lay a long itinerary: a stop at Cap Haitien, so that President Roosevelt could pay a return call on President Vincent of Haiti; another stop at Puerto Rico; and then the three little Virgin Islands which 17 years ago gave up their maiden name, the Danish West Indies, when they were married...