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...years ago he decided that the coalition of Republicans and Socialists who had been running Puerto Rico's territorial government should go, organized the Popular Democratic Party to oust them -though he also said that, if he could teach voters disrespect for parties, he would consider his job done. When his followers tried to have a celebration at the party's first anniversary, he stopped them, said there could be a celebration after four years if they kept their campaign promises, a day of mourning if they did not. In Puerto Rico the jibaro family income is about...
...resolution to the effect that "exceptional circumstances that confront the nation" make it imperative to continue him in office. Not a voice was raised in dissent. Four days later the Senate passed the same resolution, also unanimously. Unless dissatisfied palace plotters and the Harlem exiles get together and oust Stenio Vincent by force, he will continue to bask in office until...
Last week a newspaper drama hinged on whether Mrs. Abbott No. 2 could prove her race. In Chicago a cousin of childless Publisher Abbott filed petition to oust Mrs. Abbott from the Abbott estate and control of the waning Defender. Grounds: that she is white, hence was illegally married six years ago in Indiana (whose laws prohibit miscegenation...
...Brought to the Presidency a man who had fought all his life to oust foreign interests from Mexico...
...through a referendum, to be conducted this spring. This is a bit of political juggling by the Committee, for a simple majority of members will uphold their decision, whereas, if the question were brought up at the annual convention this summer, a two-thirds majority would be required to oust the three unions...