Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winning over 24 Eastern colleges in two days of debating were Richard A. Anderson '56, Toby Citrin '56, Joseph E. Frank '56, and Vincent R. Larson...
President Stenio Vincent, a poet-nationalist elected on an oust-the-U.S. platform when the Marines supervised an honest election in 1930, picked Lieut. Magloire for his aide-de-camp. But Vincent's government stumbled in 1937, when the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, in a moment of rage, let his forces massacre an estimated 15,000 Haitian cane-cutters who had crossed the border to seek harvest work. The Haitian President settled for an indemnity of $550,000 from Trujillo. With murdered Haitians thus officially priced at $37 each, Haiti soured on Vincent...
...Pierre France has a new hero. Two French producers said last week they would make movies about him. In a busy warehouse, an unemployed carpenter looked up from counting emergency-issue blankets to watch the tough Abbé stride past. "There goes another St. Vincent de Paul," he said. "Only better. He's so much more efficient...
Back to God (Sun. various times, all radio networks). Special American Legion program, with President Eisenhower, Bishop Fulton Sheen, the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, Rabbi Norman Salit...
Last week Walter Thornton got 1,000% more publicity than he wanted. Two detectives from the office of Queens County District Attorney T. Vincent Quinn walked into Thornton's plush Park Avenue establishment and placed him under arrest. The charge: obtaining money under false pretenses in his model catalogue business...