African-American Veterans and Community: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Related Issues : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, September 15, 1993 |
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Page 100 - I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras 'right' for American fruit companies in 1913.
Page 100 - And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
Page 30 - I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. ... I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras "right" for American fruit companies in 1903.
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Page 21 - The essential feature of this disorder is the development of characteristic symptoms following a psychologically distressing event that is outside the range of usual human experience (ie, outside the range of such common experiences as simple bereavement, chronic illness, business losses, and marital conflict).
Page 79 - The stressor producing this syndrome would be markedly distressing to almost anyone, and is usually experienced with intense fear, terror, and helplessness.
Page 6 - Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I am delighted to be here today.
Page 101 - ... unreasonably count upon. MELIANS But it is for this very reason that we now trust to their respect for expediency to prevent them from betraying the Melians, their colonists, and thereby losing the confidence of their friends in Hellas and helping their enemies. ATHENIANS Then you do not adopt the view that expediency goes with security, while justice and honor cannot be followed without danger; and danger the Lacedaemonians generally court as little as possible.
Page 101 - the strong do what they can and the weak do what they must
Page 65 - There are now more young black men between the ages of 20 and 29 under the control of the nation's criminal justice system (including probation and parole) than the total number in college.