Word: haitianization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover last week awaited a full report by his Haitian Commission which sailed for the U. S. from Port-au-Prince after a fortnight's investigation in the Black Republic. General was the prediction that the President, on the Commission's recommendation, would promptly withdraw Brigadier General John Henry Russell, U. S. High Commissioner and unofficial autocrat over Haiti, and appoint in his place a regular diplomatic representative...
...President Hoover: an extra $100,000,000 for the Federal Farm Board's wheat market operations, $3,000,000 for Porto Rican hurricane relief. $7,000,000 for seeds for flood-stricken farmers, $150,000 for U. S. expenses at the London Naval Conference. $50,000 for the Haitian Commission...
...Elie Vezina of Rhode Island, Papally beknighted newsman; James Kerney, editor of the Trenton (N. J.) Times; William Allen White, Editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Black: Mr. Hoover appointed an informal, independent commission headed by Robert Russa Moton, President of Tuskegee Institute, to make an exhaustive survey of Haitian education...
...Adopted a resolution appropriating $50,000 for a Hoover commission to investigate Haitian conditions...
...organized a gendarmerie, which keeps order. It was at first officered entirely by Americans, but now to a considerable extent by natives. Through engineers from the United States Navy, we supervise the building of roads, and today there are more of these, and in better condition, than formerly; the Haitian complaint is that they have been built to facilitate luxurious automobile traffic which only the Americans can afford...