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...incident closed when Father Tacchi-Venturi's neck was neatly bound up at the Santo Spirito Hospital. Later, seated in an armchair, he received a visit of condolence from Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, suave Papal Secretary of State...
...Santo Domingo, found in 1496 by Christopher Columbus who "with fragile caravels of discovery opened new routes on unknown seas," shook hands with Col. Lindbergh on his birthday. With the above quotation President Horacio Vasquez likened the visitor to a new Columbus. Among the exhibits prepared for his reception were effigies of the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower two stories high with a miniature airplane swung between them. U. S. Minister Evan E. Young entertained the visitor with a chocolate cake sprouting 26 candles...
...which Latins call "imperialistic." Said Mr. Hughes: ". . . It is the firm policy of the United States to respect the territorial integrity of the American republics. We have no policy of aggression. We do not wish their territory. ... If we had cherished an imperialistic purpose we should have remained in Santo Domingo; but we withdrew...
...place the bones of Christopher Columbus in a $4,000,000 memorial lighthouse. To erect the lighthouse in a park near Santo Domingo* already set aside by the Government of the Dominican Republic. To offer $50,000 in prizes for lighthouse designs. Such were details of a project announced, a fortnight ago, by the Governing Board of the Pan-American Union, at Washington. Already the Dominican Government has appropriated $300,000. The rest will be raised by general appeals throughout the Americas...
...Capital of the republic of the same name, in the island of Haiti, West Indies, Santo Domingo is the oldest existing settlement of white men in the New World...