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Jackie Robinson, who arrived at the Dodgers' training camp at Ciudad Trujillo three days late and 15 lbs. overweight, will probably be switched to his old job at second base, now that Ed ("Walking Man") Stanky has been traded to the Braves...
With the calendar reading only three days to spring and eleven days to the opening game on the schedule, Coach Dolph Samborski's varsity nine is slowly rounding into shape down at Briggs Cage. But the cage is no Cuidad Trujillo and Massachusetts isn't particularly known for its warm weather this time of the year, so the job is not an easy...
Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza passed the word: one nation after another was recognizing the government of his uncle, President Victor Román y Reyes, which he put in power last August without an election. He listed them: Costa Rica, Honduras, the Dominican Republic of Fellow-Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay. If enough of the American republics gave him the right hand of fellowship, he felt that the U.S. would follow. That would again make him a member in good standing in the Pan-American nations club...
...present, both the U.S. dollar and the Dominican peso will be legal tender, but after three months, by Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's law, the dollar may be withdrawn from general circulation. The Central Bank will have the right to control all dollar exchange. Chief advantage for Dictator Trujillo: complete control over all his country's dollar purchases...
...Meanwhile, hundreds of exiles were reported gathering in Cuba for a filibuster against the dictatorship of President Trujillo...