Word: caribbean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Ben Franklin, was born in Baltimore in 1800. At 15 he entered the U. S. Navy as midshipman, at $19 a month, and, like other midshipmen, found it hard to buy all the proper uniforms on that pay. At 23 he served under Commodore David Porter against the Caribbean pirates. Six years later he went as third lieutenant to the famed frigate Constellation, four years older than himself, which had spouted broadsides against the French, the English, the pirates of Tripoli. In 1835 he married Anne Catherine Lloyd of Baltimore, who bore him eight children-all daughters. When...
...tariff wall. The Spanish War added Porto Rico, the Philippines and Guam as imperial outposts, gave the U. S. a protectorate over Cuba. From the 1902 revolution in Panama the U. S. got land for the canal, laid the foundation for U. S. dominion over the Caribbean. Theodore Roosevelt, if not an imperialist, was a master empire-builder; he enlarged the Monroe Doctrine, took over the collection of the Dominican customs. The sphere of U. S. influence in the Caribbean widened; other powers were shut out as the U. S. undertook the job of policing this new domain. National defense...
...Navy. To hold this empire the navy maintains for its fighting fleets large stations at Guantanamo Bay (leased from Cuba under a treaty), at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, at Cavite near Manila, small ones at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, at Guam, Panama, Samoa and Olongapo. Policing the Caribbean is the Special Service Squadron under Rear Admiral Edward Hale Campbell. On its beat along the China coast moves the Asiatic fleet of two cruisers, 19 destroyers, auxiliary vessels, gunboats on the Yangtze River...
Ships. Though U. S. shipping is below normal, two services are noteworthy: United Fruit, most potent and most peaceful colonizer in the Caribbean; Dollar Line, only round-the-world service on a regular bi-weekly schedule...
With the approach of these forces, a hush fell over Haiti and quiet was temporarily restored. But from Congress came a menacing rumble as critics of U. S. policy in the Caribbean gathered for a new attack...