Word: santo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maryland under the Fugitive Slave Law sent him to England to drum up sympathy for his black brothers. Back in the U. S. after the War, Abolitionist Douglass became a potent leader of freed U. S. Negroes. In 1871, President Grant appointed Frederick Douglass Assistant Secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission. President Grant's appointment proved so popular with U. S. Negroes that President Garfield named Douglass Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia in 1881, allowed him to staff his office with Negroes. Since then U. S. Presidents have failed to follow President Garfield's precedent...
...first 60 years were relatively uneventful. In the next eight he packed a lifetime of effort into the negative task of preventing trouble. He kept his head while around him plotters, many of them with Grant's support, worked for war with England and Spain, the annexation of Santo Domingo and Canada. The one real achievement of Grant's Administration was the settlement of the Alabama Claims by the first great arbitration of modern history, in which Fish, able, conciliatory, determined, blocked Sumner's extravagant demand that England pay for the prolongation of the Civil...
...weaknesses. Telling again the story of the Whiskey Ring exposure, the panic of 1873, the affair of the U. S. Minister to England who floated a dishonest mining corporation, of Attorney General Williams who paid his large household expenses with Federal funds, of Grant's scheme to annex Santo Domingo for the benefit of his friends, Author Nevins clearly establishes his thesis that Grant looked on the Presidency as "a reward not a responsibility." Loyal to his friends even after their dishonesty was proved, Grant blocked the impeachment of Secretary of War William W. Belknap after the Secretary...
...Butler of Columbia University, Harvard Professor Clarence Henry Haring, President John Lenord Merrill of All America Cables, National Grand Councilor Francis P. Matthews of the Knights of Columbus, President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines Corp.; by President Roosevelt; to solicit U. S. funds for a lighthouse in Santo Domingo in honor of Christopher Columbus; in Washington...
England's popular new stamp does not clearly establish precedent. In February 1935 the Dominican Republic issued a photostamp of her Dictator-President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina at the same time that she changed the name of her capital city from Santo Domingo to Trujillo...