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An exchange between Sugar and Osvaldo about who their favorite player are follows a prior exchange between them in which Sugar tells Osvaldo that his favorite player is Clemente; Osvaldo tells Sugar his favorite is Vic Power: when Power was signed and sent to the US South in 1951, 1952. he went into a diner, and sat down; the waitress said to him, "sorry, but we don't served colored people" to which Power said "that's okay; I don't eat colored people/"

World Safe for Capitalism

The topic of books on the Dominican Republic arose last night; there are very few in the County. Peninsula owns two, from 1968 and 1970. There are nine all told in the County, which is pitiful. One is from 1928, written by Sumner Welles. (Look at his Wiki page; there is video from 1933). The books go to 1972, and then there is a jump to a book from 2002, A world safe for capitalism : dollar diplomacy and America's rise to global power. Reviews of that book mention the San Domingo Improvement Company. Googling that gave this as the first result: San Domingo Improvement Company Claims (Dominican Republic, United ... a pdf from the UN entitled REPORTS OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRAL AWARDS. Why the UN? It's dated14 July 1904. Curious.

Interest piqued, I looked some more; the fourth link is for Ulises Heureau, president of the DR thrice in the 1880s. Fascinating reading. Mentioned is made of the Ten Years' War, one of three wars for Cuban independence.


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