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...polling place the election was all over but the counting. When the counting was all over it was revealed that white-thatched old Santiago Iglesias, the Samuel Gompers of his island, had been re-elected Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner in Washington over Dr. José Lopez Antongiorgi, onetime Manhattan physician whose Liberal Party wants independence from the U. S. When Commissioner Iglesias, who miraculously escaped with a bullet-furrowed right arm when an assassin fired five shots at him last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 9), was notified of the result, he was the first to praise Puerto Rico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: Cheatproof System | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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