Word: trujillo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another possibility: the Germans were getting supplies from the Dominican Republic, whose dictator, General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina has been called pro-Nazi. It was reported last week, and quickly denied, that Dominican Coast Guard Cutter No. 3 had been sunk off Samana Peninsula "in an accidental collision with a French cruiser." Private advices in Manhattan were that the cutter had been caught piping fuel into German submarines, and was sunk by gunfire from the French ship; that furthermore, stations had been set up on shore for submarine repairs...
...Manhattan by special car arrived the entourage of General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, former President of the Dominican Republic, now Commander in Chief of its army. Fresh from a round of receptions in Washington, the onetime second lieutenant in the U. S. Marines tucked in at the Waldorf-Astoria, went off on another round of receptions, including a 21 -gun salute at the World's Fair. General Trujillo's next stop, said he, would be Paris, whither he will sail in a fortnight to pick up his wife, who went there two months ago to bear a second...
...name of his firstborn, Ramfis, General Trujillo last week endowed a bed at Brooklyn'sNXursery and Infants' Hospital. Cost: $1,000. *Association for Eating Oysters in Any Month You Want...
...Station and celebrations began along the well-trodden trail-wreaths at Arlington and Mount Vernon, inspection of the CCC camp at Fort Hunt, cocktails with Congressmen. But the next day, Death squelched the squeeze play. In deference to his late Secretary of the Navy (see below). President Roosevelt postponed Trujillo's tea to this week. The visit with Secretary Hull became a brief formal call.* The Pan American party was canceled...
...Chief favor which Dictator Trujillo seeks from Washington is control over Dominican Customs, now collected by the U. S. to insure payment of interest on old loans...