Word: santo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army airplanes completed a 6,000-mile flight, begun on March 3 at Kelly Field, San Antonio, covering Havana, Port au Prince, Santo Domingo, and ending at Bolling Field, Washington...
Colonel A. T. Marix, Minister of Justice, Education, and Foreign Relations, has made his report on the American administration of Santo Domingo, and everybody is happy. At the request of France, England, and Germany, he says, the Americans took over the management of the island, for the sake. I suppose, of the Proteus excogitated by Monroe in 1823. Why the Monroe Doctrine was not called forth from the summit of the Olympus when the British occupied the Falkland Islands in 1832, or when a Spanish fleet bombarded Cuzeo and blockaded that and other Chilean ports in 1866, or, what...
...United States took over the management of Santo Domingo in 1916. In the 53 years before that there had been 35 presidents, and as each president was supposedly elected for a four-year term, it may be readily seen that the island was far from being free from political disturbances...
...soon as the United States took over the government of the island, marines were sent in and Santo Domingo was put under a form of martial law. The first difficulty met with was in disarming the natives, who had been accustomed all their lives to carrying weapons. This was only accomplished by the intimidation of the 'bosses', the native leaders in the different sections of the country...
...difficulties were encountered in restoring the shattered finances of the state, caused by excessive borrowing from other countries. It was only at the urgent request of France, England, and Germany that the United States assumed charge of the finances, for these powers threatened to seize the custom houses of Santo Domingo if the interest on the loans was, not paid immediately...