Word: santo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imperial U. S. Not by military force but by economic power does the U. S. exert its imperial will. By shutting off loans to lagging debtors it forced settlement of the War Debts. Its agents administer the finances of Bolivia, Salvador, Liberia, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Santo Domingo. U. S. Citizen Seymour Parker Gilbert holds the purse strings of German Reparations as formulated by U. S. Citizens Charles Gates Dawes and Owen D. Young...
...Tasco Davis from Costa Rica to Panama, Hans Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld from Bulgaria to Costa Rica. Four career secretaries were advanced to their first full envoyships when Julius Garecke Lay was named Minister to Honduras, Matthew Elting Hanna to Nicaragua, Post Wheeler to Paraguay, Charles Boyd Curtis to Santo Domingo. Known as "bright young men" about the State Department, all seven are glib in Spanish...
Maybe Mr. Fagan ignores this was the first white settlement in the New World: that the first university and the first church in this continent were established in the Dominion Republic. He may also ignore that Columbus' remains are kept in the Cathedral of Santo Domingo...
...Fagan was in Santo Domingo during the American occupation he was witness of many a wedding of his fellow-in-arms with native girls, not blacks but whites...
HENRY HAMMOND Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic...