Word: haitianize
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...girl who is in love with the hero; Mr. Moseley Sheppard, Ben's master; Pharaoh, the other traitor--all these characters remain fixed in the memory some time after one has finished reading the book. Gabriel, the hero, who had pondered on the exploits of Toussainat L'Ouverture, the Haitian patriot, is not so forceful as a better novelist would have made him, but he is strong enough to make some impression even on the minds of those who "read history not with their eyes but with their prejudices," to use the words of Wendell Phillips. The novel is full...
...Marine colonel in San Diego, Calif, following a party at the colonel's home. Four years later General Butler himself was almost court-martialed for telling a Philadelphia audience that Benito Mussolini was a murderous hit-&-run driver. He was soon embroiled in a row with the Haitian Minister who was quoted as saying that a fort General Butler said he had captured in Haiti had never existed. After these highly embarrassing incidents, General Butler found it best to resign from the Marines in 1931 to devote himself to politics and public speaking as a private citizen...
...Republic of Haiti was itself again last week. The mid-summer plague of butterflies fluttered down on the custard apple trees. And in a curt ceremony at Port-au-Prince command of the Haitian army passed from Lieut.-Colonel Clayton B. Vogel of the U. S. Marine Corps to a native colonel named Demosthenes P. Calixte. After 19 years of being ruled from Washington, the Republic of Haiti at last had a crack army of 2,500 men without a single U.S. officer. Last week 275 U.S. Marines sailed away. The rest were due to leave next week...
Franklin D. Roosevelt had his fling at Haitian affairs when, as a young Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he had "something to do" with writing the constitution of 1918. When he became President, he resolved to take the U.S. out of Haiti. Last year he put through a treaty agreeing to get the Marines out of the Garde d'Haiti by Oct. 1 this year. Last April Haiti's cream-colored, egg-shaped President Stenio Vincent called on the U.S. and, between sales talks for Haitian rum and an $11,000,000 refunding loan, got President Roosevelt...
...President Stenio Vincent tried to get a refunding loan of $11,000,000 so that he could pay off Haiti's present U. S. bondholders and rid his little republic of the U. S.'s watchdog, Sidney De La Rue. Financial Adviser-General Receiver of Haitian Customs. But the bankers wanted De La Rue on the spot to protect the refunding loan too. President Vincent had gotten exactly nowhere last week when he left Manhattan for Washington...