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...helped found Scadta Airways, in Colombia and Venezuela, was its technical adviser till 1925. Capt. Hammer's engineering ability, combined with his familiarity with South American Airways, caused the Dornier company to select him for the DO-X's passenger-carrying trip up the South American coast via Porto Rico, Cuba and Miami...
...occasional game of golf (medium) is the only pastime allowed to punctuate Professor Monroe's far-flung cultural ministrations, which have extended to Poland, Jugoslavia. Smyrna, Porto Rico. China. Long a cordial sympathizer with the woes of China, it was Dr. Monroe who formed the plan whereby the Boxer indemnities, remitted by Congress in 1924, were steered into a fund for Chinese educational development. Last winter, fearful lest China turn Red, he urged the State Department to have German Reparations applied by capitalist Europe and the U. S. to China, to disband armies, build public works. The State Department...
...formally received Dr. Celeo Davila as the new Honduran Minister to the U. S. The President will have to be careful not to confuse him with Ambassador Carlos Davila of Chile, Minister Charles Davila of Rumania, Commercial Attaché Cesar Davila of Venezuela or Resident Commissioner Felix Davila of Porto Rico...
Anything but contempt has TIME for Porto Ricans, but it finds them proud, sensitive...
Last week Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, far-traveling Director of Prohibition, returned to New York from a four-day inspection trip to Porto Rico. Before he went to a reserve officers' camp for a fortnight's training, Col. Woodcock declared: "Porto Rico is pretty wet; our effort there has been rather weak. But the natives are a temperate lot. Porto Rico is so situated that bootleggers from Santo Domingo and Martinique have little difficulty in smuggling in their wares. In addition there are many small stills in operation. We have only three Federal agents on the island...