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Emergency meetings of the Red Cross were held in Washington. Ernest J. Swift, who had charge of Red Cross relief work in the Santo Domingo hurricane last fall (TIME, Sept. 15, 22), took the first train to Miami, flew in a Pan American plane to Managua, took charge of all emergency feeding stations...
Lank, myopic John La Farge was born in New York in 1835, son of a French emigre from Santo Domingo who had made a fortune in real estate in Louisiana and New York. He died in Providence, R. I. 75 years later. A confirmed aristocrat and cosmopolite, he traveled extensively, read voraciously, married Margaret Mason Perry, a granddaughter of Oliver Hazard ("We-have-met-the-enemy-and -they -are -ours") Perry. He rather disliked and distrusted the U. S. scene, the U. S. citizenry. In his later years it gave him an actual physical revulsion to shake hands with...
Four universities has Manila: University of Santo Tomas (founded 1619, oldest under U. S. domain), University of the Philippines, National University, University of Manila. The little brown students of Manila are fond of moving pictures, especially ones which portray luscious Hollywood white girls making love...
...public charge" clause to Mexican immigration has already reduced alien labor entries from that country from an annual average of 56,747 to 6,280. The same method has been used to cut less drastically Canadian labor immigration. ¶ To a $3,000,000 hurricane relief loan sought by Santo Domingo in the U. S. President Hoover had no objection...
Four nations landed sailors and marines in Santo Domingo last week to help hollow-eyed President Rafael Trujillo scavenge his hurricane smitten city. Seventy-five Royal Marines from the British Cruiser Danae helped Dominican soldiers clear the streets, police the city. Sailors from the U. S. S. Grebe and a Cuban gunboat landed food, built a temporary wooden aqueduct to bring pure water into town. A score of Dutch sailors from Curaçoa threw a pontoon bridge across the Ozama River...