Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Dr. Joseph Charles of Haiti: "Fraternity! Luminous entity which comes out of the flame and the heat, may you enlighten this august assembly . . . so that the structure of the future should never take the form of tombs...
January's spontaneous general strike had turned out President Elie Lescot, but not Haiti's ruling mulatto elite. They dominated the new Constitutional Assembly elected in May. And they were all set to choose Lescot's successor last week when the volatile people they ruled caught fire...
...Haiti's 3,000,000 poor blacks, who eat one meal a day and fight to live on about an acre of land apiece, had long been asmolder. Wartime speculation and spreading inflation left the masses ripe for rabble-rousing...
When at last the Assembly met to vote, Port-au-Prince lay uneasy under the military. Then the rulers of the only country ever to see a successful Negro slave rebellion quickly elected Dumarsais Estimé, an old-line elite politician, to be President of Haiti for the next five years...
Died. James Henry ("Jimmy") Hare. 89, veteran news photographer of the flash-powder era who took the first aerial picture of Manhattan, made closeups of five wars (Spanish-American, Russo-Japanese, Balkan, Haiti-Dominican Republic, World War I); in Teaneck...