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...city of Ponce, across the island from San Juan, Nationalists applied for a permit to parade as a protest against the imprisonment of eight of their leaders, including Chief Firebrand Pedro Albizu y Campos, who was sentenced to ten years in Atlanta penitentiary after conviction for sedition.* Mayor Ormes of Ponce issued a permit. Colonel Enrique de Orbeta, insular police chief, promptly canceled it. The Nationalists announced they would parade anyhow. The paraders came in contact with police near Pila Hospital in the heart of Ponce. A shot (fired by a Nationalist, according to police) broke the Sunday afternoon calm...
Some weeks ago a bespectacled, broad-domed young Cuban arrived in the U. S. unknown to the press, went roving about the country acquainting himself with U. S. life and thought. Last week, having completed his course of study, Dr. Pedro Martinez Fraga turned up at the White House, caught President Roosevelt, about to leave for Warm Springs, just in time to reveal himself in a courteous exchange as new Cuban Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary...
Virtue of the loser, Enrico Venturi of Italy, was an unshakable courage that enabled him to rise after a knockdown in the seventh round, win the tenth and twelfth, finish the fight on his feet after another knockdown in the 18th. The winner was Pedro Montanez, nicknamed Don Diablo (Sir Devil), of Puerto Rico. He had exhibited the agility of a hellion dancing on hot coals, a punch as persuasive as a red-hot pitchfork. The fight with Venturi was his 23rd professional appearance in the U. S., his 23rd victory. Almost inevitably it will be rewarded by a chance...
...Conference of 1930, is the Navy's second oldest battleship. A court of inquiry promptly met to investigate the Navy's second fatal explosion on the San Clemente training grounds within seven months. The Navy's most disastrous explosion along the Pacific Coast was off San Pedro 13 years ago when a blast aboard the U. S. S. Mississippi killed...
When Carlos Chavez began to write music he was barely out of his teens. A seventh child, he was born near Mexico City in 1899, first studied piano with his brother Manuel, later with teachers like Asuncion Parra and Pedro Ogazón. At 22, Chavez met José Vasconcelos, the radical Secretary of Education who hired Rivera to paint the famous murals in his Secretariat. Vasconcelos gave Chavez the commission for his first ballet, The New Fire...