Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gulf Stream to give him rest before taking up his duties in Washington. After that cruise, when the party returned to Miami, Madman Joe Zangara emptied his revolver at the President-Elect, mortally felled Mayor Cermak of Chicago who stood beside his car. In the car behind sat Vincent Astor, Raymond Moley and Frederic Kernochan. A few moments before as the cars crept through the throng Mr. Astor had said to the others of his great and good friend: "Any crank might take a shot at him. I don't like this. It's too dangerous...
Seldom do the guns of U. S. forts, north or south, fire salutes to a Negro. Yet last week the guns of Fort Jay, Governor's Island banged out 21 times for a Negro sailing up New York Harbor. The Negro was His Excellency Stenio Vincent, President of Haiti, in the U. S. to talk business with President Roosevelt...
...marine will be withdrawn from Haiti by Nov. 1 and the policing of the Caribbean republic by the U. S. trained Garde d'Haiti will have commenced 30 days before. That left only the withdrawal of Customs Receiver De La Rue as a reason for President Vincent's visit to the U. S. But chances were slight, that he will succeed on his mission. President Vincent's argument that Haiti's finances are in excellent shape is the same one Washington uses to keep Watchdog...
President Vincent, who talks like a French university professor, has another little mission up his sleeve. Haitian trade with the U. S. is ten to one against his country. In his baggage President Vincent brought a great many bottles of Haitian rum. At every interview last week two or three varieties were produced, not for cocktails or punches but to be sipped straight and slowly like old brandy...
...Haitians and most U. S. Marine Corps officers agree with President Vincent that Haitian rum is the finest in the West Indies. Aged like Scotch whiskey in empty sherry casks, it is the only rum to be distilled from the whole fresh juice of the sugar cane and not from sugar lees of blackstrap molasses. Because of this fact it is also the most expensive of West Indian rums. Even in Port au Prince good Haitian rum brings $2 a bottle, costs nearly $5 in New York. Because of this fact President Vincent is trying to persuade his countrymen...