Word: haiti
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Life is held cheaply in the island nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. For the bloody border massacres of last October (TIME, Nov. 1) in which, Haitians allege, some 12,000 of their countrymen were butchered when they crossed into Dominican territory, the Dominican Government agreed to pay Haiti $750,000. Last week the first installment, a check for $250,000, was delivered and the balance promised $100,000 at a time. The money will be doled out to refugees and to families of the massacred 12,000, who were thus valued at $62.50 per head...
...Haiti (by William Du Bois; produced by James R. Ullman under the auspices of the Federal Theatre). Last week Harlem stole some of Broadway's thunder. The Federal Theatre offered Haiti there with a half-white, half-Negro cast, and a half-white, half-Negro audience united in applauding it. The vivid set was the work of Perry Watkins, the only professional Negro stage designer in the U. S. Playwright Du Bois (Pagan Lady) has plundered- and partly falsified-history for a swift, swaggering, shoot-to-kill melodrama about the Haitian Negro uprising of 1802 under Henri Christophe...
...audiences supposed, Captain Jinks was a myth. But, although few knew it, mounted marines were a real part of the U. S. Marine Corps. During the U. S. "trade-follows-the-flag" era, mounted marines were used in Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Mexico and Nicaragua. In 1903 a squad of marines jogged on horseback through barren Ethiopia to visit Emperor Menelek II. Then in 1909, with China on the edge of a bloody revolution, a detachment of U. S. marines stationed at Peking mounted stumpy-legged Mongolian ponies, set to watching over U. S. citizens living outside embassy quarters. Since...
...design, support of the League of Nations and "sympathy" of most sister republics in the New World. To publicize the project and to get this sympathy backed by the $5,000,000 hard cash necessary for its completion, the Dominican Government last spring, before it fell to warring with Haiti, announced a "Goodwill Flight'' to 52 cities in 26 countries from Argentina to Canada...
...Life Begins at Forty) will be talking on The Art of Relaxation, and in Brooklyn, Dr. Houston Peterson (The Melody of Chaos) will discuss Aldous Huxley. Martha Gellhorn talks that week in Chicago, Younghill Kang (The Grass Roof) in Wheeling, W. Va., and Captain John D. Craig (Adventure in Haiti) in Ann Arbor, Mich. In addition there will be a number of lectures belonging to the Great Question Mark school of public speaking, with David Seabury in Detroit asking What Makes Us Seem So Queer?; John T. Flynn in Elizabeth, N. J., What's the Matter With...