Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Revolution. Audubon himself may have thought he was. A vain man, he affected popinjay dress against the dun background of Pennsylvania Quakers, crow's raiment in dandiacal English society. At any rate, his origins were mysterious. He was, perhaps, born in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo (now Haiti) in 1785. Little is known of him before he was 9, when he was legally adopted in France by one Captain Audubon, who said he was the child's father. Variously called Fougere ("Fern"), La Foret, and plain Jean Jacques, the pampered child learned stalking tricks near his Nantes home...
...School. Their I.Q.s were from 130 to 200, the highest recorded rating, indicating potential genius. Chosen from regular New York City classrooms, they came from homes in all economic levels. Nor were they racially or nationally homogeneous. There were two Negro girls from Jamaica and a Negro boy from Haiti...
...takes a long while for news to seep from the jungle. Only last week did news come from Port-au-Prince, Haiti to the world of a battle that in any country nearer a cable office would have made headlines...
French-speaking, Negro Haiti with an area of 10,204 sq. mi. has a population (2,550,000) almost twice that of Spanish-speaking, mainly Mestizo Dominican Republic, area 19,332 sq. mi. For years, overcrowded Haitians have been slipping over the border, squatting on Dominican land. Fortnight ago the border villages blazed with fire and the banging of musketry. When the smoke cleared, over 300 were dead on Dominican soil, mostly Haitian squatters, their wives and children. Nervous authorities in both countries feared reprisals...
...past year Mr. Sanderson has been doing in Haiti much the same thing he did in Africa. Last week he dazed his Manhattan agents with a cable announcing he was arriving with a broken nose and two dragons...