Word: dominicans
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Haiti. One island: two republics. Republic of Haiti: blacks and French mulattos. Dominican Republic: Spanish Creoles, scrambled mulattos, Indians. Dominicans speak Spanish, Haitians hear French. Santo Domingo seems still a 16th Century Spanish town and is the oldest European settlement in the Western Hemisphere. Toussaint L'Ouverture, "The Black Bolivar," won Haitian independence from Emperor Napoleon. Today the U. S. maintains a nebulous protectorate to check the once incessant revolutions at Port au Prince, Haiti. In back country Haiti are congo folk, who practice voodoo rites. Columbus discovered the island and named it "Hispaniola," (Espagnola) Little Spain...
...favored ones are Mgr. Raymond Rouleau, Archbishop of Quebec (Dominican) ; Mgr. Pedro Sigura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain (Augustinian); Mgr. Alexis Henry Lepicier, Titular Bishop of Tarsus in Asia Minor (Servite); Mgr. Henry Charles Binet, Archbishop of Besancon, France...
...reciprocity." The U. S. has concluded most-favored-nation treaties with Hungary, Estonia, Germany. Negotiations for similar treaties are under way with: Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland, Latvia, Guatemala, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Jugoslavia, Honduras. Modus-vivendi agreements extending most-favored-nation treatment are in effect with: Albania, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Latvia, Lithuania, Nicaragua, Poland, Rumania. Turkey...
...Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic...
...Gregorio and Ma ie Martinez Sierra by John Garrett Underbill, is the last and foremost of the 14th Street repertory. It is a tender melody of women, who, having taken the veil, strive with wistful severity, to abjure the world's dancing sunbeams for the grey routine of a Dominican convent. They adopt a baby girl. As the foundling sings from the cradle to womanhood, the nuns feel themselves, by her presence, just a little nearer to the throbbing joys of their dreaming. One day, the girl marries a young man and goes away. There is very little plot, even...