Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little egg-shaped Negro with a small, sharp, smiling face went the rounds of Manhattan bankers. For two weeks Haiti's President Stenio Vincent tried to get a refunding loan of $11,000,000 so that he could pay off Haiti's present U. S. bondholders and rid his little republic of the U. S.'s watchdog, Sidney De La Rue. Financial Adviser-General Receiver of Haitian Customs. But the bankers wanted De La Rue on the spot to protect the refunding loan too. President Vincent had gotten exactly nowhere last week when he left Manhattan...
...three men chosen were: Roy M. Cohen '36, who read from "John Brown's Body" by Stephen Vincent Bent, Tucker Dean '37, reading poems by Elizabeth and Robert Browning, and Roy W. Winsauer '36, who presented selections from Browning, Shelley, and Wordsworth...
Like a poker player coming into a game of royal reds and blues with but one white chip to offer, President Stenio Vincent of Haiti arrived in Washington today to confer with President Roosevelt concerning Haiti's financial troubles...
...Randall Thompson) in which both choruses joined to do honor to Horace, "By the Rivers of Babylon" (Loeffier) wherein the Radcliffe girls eloquently express the melancholy of the Psalmist, and "John Brown's Song" (Robert Delaney) which was a strange and certainly modern treatment of the poem by Steven Vincent Benet...
Gnomelike Walter James Vincent Maranville is one of the nine big-leaguers over 40.* He got his first big-league job, with Boston, 22 years ago when the regular shortstop broke a leg. If he had played 140 games this season, Maranville would have passed the record of Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner who played in 2,785. Famed for his basket-catches of infield flies, his picayune size, his antics on the field and off, Maranville hoped also to play until he had grandchildren old enough to watch him. When he was traded out of the big leagues...