Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, decade ago, Katherine Dunham majored in anthropology, with her eye on the dance as a primitive social manifestation. On the side she taught dancing, formed dance groups. In 1936 Miss Dunham persuaded the Rosenwald Foundation to send her to the West Indies to study the dances of Jamaica, Haiti, Martinique, Trinidad. Un like most anthropologists, Miss Dunham could break down the shyness of her subjects by cutting expert capers. Awed Haitians were sure she had "a piece" of their native god. Conversing in English and French patois, she picked up many a trick step, including...
...time the Commission submitted its report late last year, Great Britain was at war. In peacetime the Government might have made the smug point that, bad as things are in the British-ruled islands, they are a whole lot better than conditions in self-ruled Haiti and the Dominican Republic. But with a war on, it was better policy to do something to make things better. So last week up-&-doing little Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald uprose in the House of Commons to announce what the Government planned to do. Cagey Scot that he is, Mr. MacDonald...
...until 1918 did The Nation blossom out into a full-blown crusading radical weekly. Publisher Villard had opposed U. S. entry into the war, and in The Nation he set out to blast imperialism, war, monopoly, reaction. The Nation campaigned to have U. S. troops recalled from Santo Domingo, Haiti, Nicaragua, denounced the Treaty of Versailles, fulminated against lynching, helped to uncover the Teapot Dome oil scandals...
Katie Went to Haiti (Leo Reisman; Victor). Gertrude Niesen does about as well by this Cole Porter frolic as Ethel Merman does in the show, Du Barry Was a Lady...