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...details, they all add something to the impression the author is trying to create. She goes on to say "and none of these things mattered now, I thought, none of these emphatic headlines, those photographed faces, those men hurrying to meetings. I wondererd how much they ever mattered to Porto Praia...
Over 80 members of the Harvard R. O. T. C. will sail the Spanish Main on the annual summer practice cruise of the unit this summer. Last summer the marines visited San Juan, Porto Rico, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Kingston, Jamaica...
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., '08 son of the former president, once Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Porto Rice, and Governor-General of the Philippines, will address Yardlings in the Lower Common Room of the Union at 7:30 o'clock this evening. It is thought that, as former chief executive of two of our insular possessions. Roosevelt's talk will concern them or American colonial policies in general...
After campaigning unsuccessfully against Al Smith for Governor of New York in 1924, Roosevelt left the public service for five years, devoting most of his time to geographical exploration. Then in 1929 he was made Governor of Porto Rico, where he remained until 1932 when President Roosevelt appointed him Governor-General of the Phillipines...
Since it was Strong Man Flores da Cunha, a doughty soldier who can tie a steer singlehanded, who helped boost his friend into the Presidential Palace in 1930, Strong Man Vargas knew he had better act quickly. Back to Porto Alegre flashed a Presidential order relieving Governor Flores da Cunha of his responsibilities as executor of the "state of war" in Rio Grande do Sul, handing them over to General Emilio Lucio Esteves, the State's Federal military commandant. This order in effect gave General Esteves a free hand with 17,000 Federal troops against anything General Flores...