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...urge to celebrate the anniversary (July 25) of the landing of U.S. troops on their island in 1898. Then Harry Truman gave them reason. On that day he chose a native Puerto Rican as their governor, the first to hold the post. He was burly 49-year-old Jesús Toribio Piñero, since 1944 Puerto Rico's elected Resident Commissioner in Washington...
...choice of William Henry Hastie to be Governor of the Virgin Islands, the President had sent a Negro to govern a predominantly Negro population. In picking Jesús Piñero, he said that he was giving an earnest of the U.S. desire for U.S. colonials to have a greater voice in their government...
...aware of the anniversary, Harry Truman did not mention it. But he had plenty of good reasons for his choice. U.S.-trained (University of Pennsylvania), Jesús Piñero had been an able spokesman of Puerto Rico's problems. He was a popular man at home. He was a close friend of the island's most powerful politician, Luis Muñoz Marin; with him Piñero had founded the now dominant Popular Democratic Party in 1938. The Insular Legislature had recommended his appointment...
...bartender snorted, "What the hell y'u doin' in here afoot, anyhow?" When two friendly riders met on the trail, they stopped and sooner or later swung off their horses, squatted on their bootheels, began scratching in the dirt with broomweed stalks. "A cowhand kin jes' talk better when he's a-scratchin' in the sand like a hen in a dung heap." This was known as cow geography, from the pictures they drew on the ground...
...often 'Geechee would stagger in to reassure her: "Kate an' Raymond's fightin', but don't you worry." "The bacon done burnt itself up, but don't you fret." "Kate is chasin' Raymond thu the grove with a butcher knife. But you jes' lay still and don't worry." So now 'Geechee comes to see Mrs. Rawlings once a year. She is always a little drunk. She says "they ain't nothin' nobody can do about...