Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fate of Giordano Bruno, Dominican pantheist, smiter of scholastic Aristotelianism, philosophical ancestor, in some regards, of Spinoza, is known "to every schoolboy," at least in the Macaulay School. The blind self-slain Chancellor, the great Dominican heretic, Copernican, metaphysician, the supreme schoolman, are strange comrades, vivid to the imagination. Two of them are instinct with the Virgilian tenderness, in that city of Virgil, of "mentem mortalia tangunt." --New York Times...
Honduras. For the past few months a bloody series of battles have been waged between several factions representing dissatisfied presidential candidates. Sumner Welles, U. S. Commissioner to the Dominican Republic, who is representing U. S. President Coolidge in an effort to bring about internal harmony (TIME, April 21), arrived in Honduras. His reception was so cold, however, that failing to receive adequate guarantees, he was unable to enter the capital city, Tegucigalpa...
...bright glow appeared on an otherwise nocturnal horizon. U. S. President Coolidge instructed Sumner Welles, U. S. Commissioner to the Dominican Republic, to proceed to Tegucigalpa and offer the friendly assistance of the U. S. for the establishment of peace in Honduras...
...perfect. It has done many things that are wrong, he added, and it has done many things that are right, "but it has never attempted to do anything that it has not done well." The support of the United States will make it all-powerful. Germany, Russia, Equador, The Dominican Republic, Mexico, Turkey, Afghanistan, and the United States are the only nations outside of the League...
...following eight Latin American countries have U. S. financial advisers: Colombia, Peru, Panama, Cuba, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Haiti, the Dominican Republic...