Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four hours later the sun shone peaceful and bright on a ruined city. The hurricane, tearing inland across the island broke its force against the rugged mountains separating Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic from French-speaking Haiti. In Santo Domingo city 1,500 were killed, 5,000 were injured, 30,000 homeless and destitute. Dapper General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo who has only been president of the Dominican Republic 19 days found the presidential palace crashing about his ears. Almost before the wind stopped whistling he was in the streets directing army and police relief operations. To Washington he sent a pathetic...
...quick to help. President Hoover was publicly and officially shocked and grieved, the American Red Cross sent $50,000. The Haitian government voted $20,000 more. From the Marine Corps base at Port au Prince, Haiti, an officer flew over on reconnaissance trip. He reported...
...draft-dodgers. In 1925, when the aircraft carrier Saratoga was launched, the old New York became the Rochester. Remodeled in 1927, she was robbed of one of her funnels. She is now flagship of the special service squadron in the Caribbean, conveyor of U. S. Marines to Haiti and Nicaragua, but she is far out of date, destined soon to be scrapped. She will die with her head up. Last week the Navy Department announced that the Rochester's seamen, with the Rochester's equipment, had won the Battle Efficiency Pennant-for excellence in gunnery, engineering and communications...
...0ther Presidential commissions have: 1) consolidated veterans' relief; 2) arbitrated South western railroad strikes: 3) determined U. S. policy in Haiti; 4) negotiated the London Naval Treaty...
...Confirmed the nomination of Dana Gardner Munro to be Minister to Haiti...