Word: santos
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...this realm live several hundred Americans, Danes and Spaniards, 20,000 Negroes. They plant sugar, have tropic fun. A few of them are disgruntled because the U. S. has not yet granted them citizenship. The population has been steadily decreasing, because of Negro migrations to Haiti, Cuba, Porto Rico, Santo Domingo and New York City...
...United States already has absorbed Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the Virgin Islands, Samana Bay in Santo Domingo Mole, Saint Nicholas in Haiti, Fonseca Bay and Corn Islands in Nicaragua and now, through an alliance with Panama, may acquire the Island of Manzanilla...
...delegates are nearly all seasoned diplomats with a lifetime of experience in international dealings. The U. S. delegate, Mr. Hugh Simpson Gibson, began his diplomatic career as a secretary to the U. S. legation at Tegucigalpa in 1908. He progressed steadily through increasingly responsible posts at Honduras, Havana, Santo Domingo, Brussels, London and Paris, until he was appointed U. S. Minister to Poland (1919-24) and finally to Switzerland, his present post. Paradoxically, the German delegate is Count von Bernstorff, famed as the pre-war German Ambassador...
...head out over the broad Atlantic for the Madeira Islands, some 800 miles away. . . . Nightfall did not find them in Funchal. Their plane had pitched to the sea, as if crippled, but it was not crippled?only out of gas. And they were hard by the shores of Porto Santo...
Cuba. President Gerardo Machado y Morales signed a Sanitary Convention negotiated on Nov. 14, 1924, by Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Para guay, Peru, Salvador, Santo Do mingo, the U. S., Uruguay, Venezuela...