Word: chamorro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Chamorro told a story that had all the melodrama of an oldtime cowboy-and-Indian two-reeler. The better-looking girls, she said, had to take turns going to the Jap officers' camp to cook-and "for other things." Her turn was due, she said, "the day the Americans came-just in time...
Since I had the supervision of several hundred laborers on Island Public Works, I am convinced that the Chamorro is a first-class laborer. He is loyal to America. He has considerable European blood in his makeup. It may be true that he does not produce large amounts of food. This is due to one reason only, a lack of a market in which to dispose of his produce at a profit. In Guam the average temperature is about 81° F. and the humidity is up in the 80s. This causes rapid decomposition. The natives are extremely poor...