Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice was that of Haitian Colonel Astrel Roland, accused by the Haitian government a fortnight ago of heading a Dominican-backed plot against the regime. The coffee-colored colonel denied that there had been any conspiracy. He promised to return to Haiti. He also promised to restore the mulatto rule which Estimé's blacks had supplanted...
...month ago, a short, scholarly-looking man named Jack Lewis rented a shabby basement apartment on Manhattan's West 74th St. He and his wife were a quiet couple who had few callers and got no mail except for one lone postcard. It was from "Joe" in Haiti and said only, "Having a swell time." Lewis told the landlord that he was a statistical engineer, that he was gathering material for a book on mathematics. Henna-haired Mrs. Lewis, 42, never spoke to the neighbors...
There were many other projects, all worthy, all vague, and mostly unfinished. An investigation in Haiti, said Dr. Huxley, had disclosed that Haiti's problem "is fundamentally one of overpopulation, soil erosion and disease, and is impossible of solution only or mainly by educational methods." "People generally," remarked George Allen dryly, "are impressed by finished jobs." Later on, stocky, practical U.S. Delegate Anne O'Hare McCormick cried in desperation: "What is the precise role of UNESCO? It's becoming more and more vague. We are constantly being called upon to make studies and promote. Promote what? What...
Haitians, he had been warned, were too poor to be taxed. There had even been mutterings among the coffee-colored aristocracy about an armed rising. But last week, as President Dumarsais Estimé's income-tax law-the first in Haiti's 144-year history-went into effect, Haitians were too absorbed by the things Estimé was doing with his record-breaking $13,000,000 budget to take much notice...
...South Carolina cotton picker, Larry Winters worked his way through Howard University as a delivery boy, elevator operator and porter. Three days before graduation, he got his first break: the role of Emperor of Haiti in a production of Negro Composer Clarence Cameron White's opera Quango. He made a hit in it, but not his fortune. Soon afterwards he took a job as a singing waiter in Manhattan's Belmont Plaza Hotel...