Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haiti," Mr. Rayford W. Logan, Harvard...
...Weimar the most striking floral tribute, everyone agreed last week, was an enormous sheaf of real Greek olive branches laid on Goethe's tomb by the representative of Greece. Ordinary flowers were bestowed in the name of India, Haiti, South Africa, Finland and 70 more nations. The U. S. wreath?not laid by Ambassador Sackett. who was in Paris-was deposited by a grave personage whose dry wit is concealed on public occasions by his Buddha-like mien. Councilor John Wiley, chief prop of Ambassador Willys in Poland. Read the wreath which Mr. Wiley deposited at the foot of Goethe...
...there were at one time last week only five delegates present in the Conference hall while ostensibly important work was going on. The longest speech of the Conference thus far was made by Haitian Delegate Constantin Mayard who, in the course of 7,000 words, happily said that in Haiti, "the Hoover good-will policy has been instituted...
...requested Congress to bring the W. W. F. D. Commission back to life to deal realistically with the debt problem as it exists today in the light of Depression. In a special message on foreign affairs the President talked about the World Court, Manchuria, the St. Lawrence Waterway, Nicaragua, Haiti et al., but these topics were all pushed into the background of public interest by what he had to say on War Debts. Excerpts...
...bones of the English, wrote Imperialist Rudyard Kipling, the English flag is stayed. The bones of Americans, too, lie whitening around the North Pole, in Luzon, Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, at Peking, Château-Thierry, on the weedy bottoms of four oceans and "the seven seas." Most of these are military bones. But men die in the Foreign Service too. Last week Consul Giles Russell Taggart, technically on leave, died at his post in Belize, British Honduras, from injuries sustained in last fortnight's hurricane (TIME. Sept. 21). Grieved, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson announced...