Word: vezina
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...from Haiti, what he can do for Haiti in the meantime, President Hoover with congressional authority last week appointed two commissions, one formal and white, one informal and black. White: Chairman, William Cameron Forbes, onetime Governor General of the Philippines; Henry Prather Fletcher, one-time Ambassador to Italy; Elie Vezina of Rhode Island, Papally beknighted newsman; James Kerney, editor of the Trenton (N. J.) Times; William Allen White, Editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Black: Mr. Hoover appointed an informal, independent commission headed by Robert Russa Moton, President of Tuskegee Institute, to make an exhaustive survey of Haitian education...