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...unaccredited delegates-whose contested credentials were being considered last week by G. O. P. officials in Kansas City-there were 73. These came from Louisiana (12), Mississippi (12), Texas (26, or all the delegates), Florida (9 of the 10 delegates), Porto Rico (2), Georgia (3), South Carolina (4), Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Delegates | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Missouri 4 Porto Rico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Delegates | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...crow of the fighting cock is Porto Rico's national anthem, sung from early dawn to murmurous dusk by spur-legged game-birds tethered in squalid door-yards all over the island. On Sundays the national anthem is stilled. Those sacks you see the natives carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: The Pit | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Independence for U.S. territories (Philippines, Porto Rico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Thrill, Shock | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Philadelphia, Pa., May 17--Harvard graduates numbering over 1500 assembled here today in the thirtieth annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. Those present represent approximately every state in the country, and many have come to the meeting from Canada, Porto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii, and England. The conference will continue tomorrow and will conclude with a banquet Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ALUMNI MEET IN QUAKER CITY ASSEMBLAGE | 5/18/1928 | See Source »

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