Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January, President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, for seven years hard-hitting dictator of the Dominican Republic, announced he was retiring to "private life," that he would not be a candidate for reelection. That Dictator Trujillo was not going to be any less a dictator in "private life," however, was evident when he nominated loyal Henchman Dr. Jacinto B. Peynado as his successor. Just where Boss Trujillo stands in his henchman's estimation is evident from the neon sign which glitters on the front of Peynado's home. It reads: GOD AND TRUJILLO. Says President-elect Peynado...
Last week, 345,174 male members of the Dominican Party-only legal one in the Dominican Republic-went to the polls. Women were permitted to cast a "symbolic" ballot of confidence. The men voted 92% for Peynado...
...wife had three children, Una, Julian and Rose. Una became an Angelican nun and died in England at 35. Julian became his father's biographer, wrote some 50 volumes, died in 1934 in San Francisco, Calif, at the age of 88. Rose turned Catholic and founded, under the Dominican rule, the Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer and headed the order until her death twelve years ago. Because Nathaniel Hawthorne's powers of observation were extremely acute, and because he filled his many notebooks with jottings about his children, his random writings about them make...
Seeking Annulment. Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odlum Dominici, head of Manhattan's swankshop Bonwit Teller and former wife of investment trust Tycoon Floyd B. Odlum; of her marriage to Dr. Porfilio Dominici, Dominican physician; in Manhattan. Grounds: that she had been deceived about her husband's social and financial status by "fraud, conspiracy and misrepresentation...
...earth. Though many Protestant clergymen are out & out pacifists, most Catholics have been restrained on that subject. Newsworthy was it, therefore, when an eminent Catholic divine opened Lent with a ringing pastoral letter on the subject of peace. He was the Most Rev. John Timothy McNicholas, the forceful, ruddy Dominican who for 13 years has been Archbishop of Cincinnati. He wrote...