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...wash his feet, rub his brow, lull him to sleep. "King" Waldo I will soon gaze upon his domain-the islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, and some 50 adjacent islets controlling the Virgin Passage at the gateway to the Caribbean Sea, 60 miles east of Porto Rico, 1,400 miles from Manhattan. The Virgin Islands were, as every schoolboy knows, discovered by Columbus in 1494 on his second voyage to the Americas. They were purchased by the U. S. in 1917 from Denmark for $25,000,000. They are not big (132 square miles); the harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 'King Waldo I | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Married. Constance Towner, daughter of Governor Horace M. Towner of Porto Rico; to one Leslie B. Young; in San Juan, P. R. Hers was the first marriage in 400 years at the Executive Mansion, onetime Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 24, 1927 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...widowed Manhattan Magistrate: "I, famed for my vitality, for my vigorous interest in matrimonial felicity (TIME, June 28), last week adjusted a flagrant case of impending desertion. One Martha Rosa, 20, appeared in my court charging that one Sixto Margon, 21, Negro, steward on S. S. Cuemo of the Porto Rican Line, was that day sailing for Porto Rico, intending to desert her in a crisis. I at once despatched a detective, who arrested Steward Margon just as the gangplank was being drawn up. After I had lectured him, he married Miss Rosa forthwith. I was congratulating them, when suddenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: people: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

Last week, in Washington, able Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis perused thoroughly the annual Porto Rican report of Governor Horace Mann Towner, smiled. It was brief, comprehensive, encouraging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Porto Rico | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

Every Secretary of War is said to cherish a longing to visit his distant dominions, such as Porto Rico. But Governor Towner said nothing of the romance of tropic nights; clung tenaciously to statistical accuracy. When the Governor was a Congressman from Iowa he could fill his collar, and his cheeks were full. Now, after three years in Porto Rico, he is thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Porto Rico | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

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