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...Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, Canal Zone (six votes each...
...Alaska, District of Columbia," he went on, "Hawaii, Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, Canal Zone." After each name the delegates sighed with relief. After two and a half days the roll call was over. Sixteen candidates had had themselves nominated. McAdoo had been seconded eleven times, Smith seven times, Underwood and Glass twice each, Silzer, Ritchie. John W. Davis and Brown once each. Two and half days had been worn away in oratory and Fahrenheit heat, interspersed with soul-exhausting demonstrations of as much enthusiasm as was thought to be politically effective. Yet an end had been achieved?not the nomination...
...replacing wooden hulls with metal duralumin. To show the Navy what his metal hulls could do, Inglis M. Uppercu, A. P. & M. President-likewise President of the Uppercu Cadillac Corporation of Manhattan, and a keen yachtsman-had one of his ships, the Morro Castle, 2nd, fly from San Juan, Porto Rico, to the docks of the Columbia Yacht Club on the Hudson. When Pilot C. J. Zimmerman, Floyd Whalton (his mechanic) and Mrs. Whalton reached the Hudson, they had but a few drops of coffee and some crumbs of bread left, but were physically fit and highly elated at their...
...Passed a bill to make the Governorship of Porto Rico elective in 1932 or at an earlier date if illiteracy can be reduced to 30% on the island...
...paid-up insurance to those credited with greater amounts (TIME, May 5 et pre.) had been settled. The dates of effect were now fixed as Jan. 1, 1925, for insurance certificates and March 1, 1925, for cash. Female yeomen of the Navy and of the Marine Corps and the Porto Rican regiment infantry were included in the benefits of the bill; Philippine Scouts excluded...