Word: insular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Palomar 1'26-'27, 505 Insular Life Bldg., Manila...
...must challenge one of your facts. There were no political prisoners in the Insular Penitentiary on October 28 or at any previous date. The government of Puerto Rice has never sentenced anyone to jail for a political crime. As it correctly appears in your column, when Albizu was convicted in 1937 it was by a Federal court. He was sent to a Federal penitentiary at Atlanta from which both he and his companions have since been freed...
...Malicious & Irresponsible." Oscar Chapman, fighting-mad, rumbled into a klieg-lighted meeting of the Senate's Interior and Insular Affairs Committee two days later and confronted his accuser. "Senator Schoeppel's statement," said Chapman, ". . . can be dismissed as malicious and irresponsible . . . another instance of the use of the smear technique which has become the stock in trade of little men in high places." Its purpose, he declared, was a "last-ditch attempt to block statehood for Alaska" by suggesting that "my motives in advocating [it] are sinister and evil...
Phillipines: G. P. Palmar 1, 26; 505 Insular Life Bldg., Manila...
What lifts Tight Little Island above its own high mark of insular drollery, and turns its chuckles into laughs, is its mastery of the visual gag. The picture moves quietly but surely until the islanders make a rendezvous with the derelict Scotch. Then, in picturing their celebration, their efforts to hide the loot from customs raiders and a chase to rescue the biggest cache of whisky, the camera goes on an inspired spree. For lightness, comic movement and inventive detail, these sequences are worthy of Rene Clair...