Word: haitian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among protagonists of various versions of this plan have been Clarence K. Streit (Union Now) and radical Economist Harold J. Laski, who proposed a union roughly like America under the Articles of Confederation.* Last week the chorus grew. Speaking at an audience with the Haitian Minister to the Vatican, Pope Pius XII urged formation of "a stable and fruitful international organization...
After this spiritual death, his adventures are carnal enough. He turns up on a southbound tramp steamer, becomes embroiled in an abortive Haitian rebellion, tries his hand at Washington politics. As the War begins he becomes a-foreign correspondent-on the German side. When the U. S. is on the brink of joining the Allies, he carries on underground anti-Ally propaganda to keep the U. S. out. Courting but never really espousing lost causes, living up to his ideals but not to his talents, he scorns worldly success, of course never gets it. At the end, all the rapscallion...
Nazi journalists behaved like badly spoiled, ill-tempered and sulky brats last week at London and Brussels. At London, they boycotted Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech. At Lima, five German correspondents stalked out of a committee session in a huff when Dantes Bellegarde, Haitian delegate, declared that the Americas could not "possibly have anything in common with a nation that had reverted to customs of the Middle Ages...
Against a background of the Haitian uprising led by Toussaint L' Ouverture in 1802 is painted the picture of a girl, who has been brought up in a French family only to learn that she is half Negress. Behind her sudden renunciation of her country and finance and her espousal of the Haitian cause is less patriotism than the admission of a type of "inferiority" too often decried in this country, though seldom recognized in France. Because it is alien to the democratic spirit and because it may easily offend many whose money supports the Federal Theatre, the choice...
Export-Import President Pierson, a 40-year-old California lawyer with a sense of humor and a vast love of travel, was pleased to reveal that he had agreed to discount notes of the Haitian Government for $5,000,000 worth of public works to be handled by J. G. White Engineering Corp., that he was discussing a substantial order of railroad equipment for Brazil, that the door was open to South American nations in general...