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...first time that Pan American's excellent radio system, with its network of 56 stations extending from Miami and Mexico City to Buenos Aires, had gone to a rescue. A year ago it was a Pan American operator who flashed the message that Santo Domingo was struck by a hurricane, just a few minutes before his own station was laid low. Next morning the same operator was on the air again, begging Miami to send doctors, nurses, supplies. Pan American planes carried them (TIME, Sept...
...presence of President Getulio, Vargas of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro diplomatic corps, three judges-a U. S. citizen, a Uruguayan, a Finn-passed on ten final sets of plans from Great Britain, the U. S., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, for a memorial lighthouse to Christopher Columbus in Santo Domingo. When they agreed, they gave the $10,000 prize and a contract for his design to a 24-year-old Briton, one J. L. Cleave of Nottingham...
...recent big blows from the Caribbean have been in September. It is not unusual for an equinoctial storm to beat the calendar by a week or so (autumnal equinox: Sept. 22). Florida's last two bad ones (1926, 1928) came in September, also Porto Rico's (1928), Santo Domingo's (1930). Cuba's last serious hurricane struck in October...
...trip to Porto Rico. Before he went to a reserve officers' camp for a fortnight's training, Col. Woodcock declared: "Porto Rico is pretty wet; our effort there has been rather weak. But the natives are a temperate lot. Porto Rico is so situated that bootleggers from Santo Domingo and Martinique have little difficulty in smuggling in their wares. In addition there are many small stills in operation. We have only three Federal agents on the island...
...Customs are the favorite U. S. security when lending money to Santo Domingo, Haiti, Nicaragua. *Prince von Bismarck, first Chancellor of the German Empire, was in Paris as a conqueror when the German Empire was declared. When he entered the city he was merely Chancellor of Prussia...