Word: santo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Promoted in the foreign service by President Hoover last week for "courageous and energetic action . . . and exceptionally meritorious service" were John Moore Cabot, U. S. legation secretary at Santo Domingo, and William A. Bickers, consul at Puerto Plata, D. R. Because of their pacification of the last Dominican revolution, their pay will now be $3,500 per year instead...
...Residents arriving here from Santa Rosa, Opon, to attend the coming celebration of Santo Nino, report that one Balbino Igot, sexton of the church of Santa Rosa, is pregnant. Balbino, an hermaphrodite . . . is barely 16 years...
...Coffee and sugar are Santo Domingo's chief crops. For the past year coffee and sugar plantations have had poor crops. When this happens, the citizenry are naturally "agin the government...
Soon came a wireless message from Santiago de los Caballeros. "Supreme Chief" had accepted the hint of the U. S. Government. His forces would continue to advance on Santo Domingo, but there would be no fighting. Santo Domingo businessmen sighed with relief...
Next morning, while the Government's army in Santo Domingo remained stu- diously neutral in their barracks, the invasion of Santo Domingo city began. Two thousand revolutionists, mostly farmers in blue overalls with rifles slung from their shoulders, sauntered into town. Citizens cheered half-heartedly from the curbstones. Back from Santiago de los Caballeros came the mud-spattered runabout coupe, and seated beside Courier Cabot was "Supreme Chief" Urena. On his head, a slouch hat, from the pocket of his flannel shirt protruded a fountain pen, from his shoulder hung a broad-bladed sword, its handle ivory-inlaid...