Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long list of longtime American Presidents seeking still longer terms last month was added the name of Haiti's President Stenio Vincent. For eleven years Stenio Vincent had managed Haiti much as the late Huey Long managed Louisiana, sometimes sending to his Chamber of hand-picked Deputies bills in sealed envelopes, which they passed without breaking the seals. So it was a simple matter to have the Chamber vote him indispensable to Haiti for another five years (TIME, March 24). But then President Vincent ran into trouble. Haiti's Constitution required the third-term resolution to be submitted...
This, last week, the Deputies dutifully did. But not before a mob of Haitians had stormed into the Chamber through broken doors and smashed the Deputies' desks. The mob objected to Elie Lescot not only as Stenio Vincent's stooge but as too good a friend of the neighboring Dominican Republic's Boss Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, whom most Haitians blame for the border massacre of 1937 (TIME, Nov. 1, 1937). The mob was ill-advised on both counts. Elie Lescot wangled an indemnity out of President Trujillo. And Stenio Vincent loves leisure more than power, would...
Married. Helen Huntington Astor, 46, former wife of Vincent Astor; and Lytle Hull, 54, Palm Beach real-estate broker and longtime friend of the Astors, who were divorced on Sept. 4, 1940, after 26 years' married life; at Garnett...
...Stephen Vincent Benet, the noted American poet and writer, will give a reading of his own poems at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon in Emerson Hall. The reading is under the suspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...
...Halifax, the Canadian naval patrol boat Otter, 2,000 tons, burned and sank with loss of 19 lives. Until last year, the Otter was Vincent Astor's famed Nourmahal, on which Seadog Astor often took Franklin Roosevelt fishing...