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...Sachs '29, L. S. Hess Sp., and R. F. Courtney '29, will debate against a team from the University of Porto Rico this evening in Paine Hall on the question: "Resolved. That the United States should cease to protect by armed forces American investments in the Carribean, without prior declaration of war." Harvard will uphold the negative side...
Clubs in virtually every state in the Union have replied to the invitation as have those in Canada, Cuba, England, Honelulu, and Porto Rico...
...countries to be represented are, according to the latest reports of the executive committee for the convention, England, France, Germany, Russia, China, Belgium, Italy, Japan, Holland, Switzerland. Scotland, Brazil, Porto Rico, Armenia, Irish Free State, Denmark, Greece, India, Bulgaria, and Korea...
...Greek for "life-strength." By his own efforts, he is a naturalized American. A touch of World War heroism becomes his dark, tall, military bearing-he was a lieutenant colonel, won the D. S. M., was a member of the Legion of Honor. He started by electrifying Porto Rico's wilderness, then Cuba's, Mexico's, Chile's. These were telephone operations, at first, but soon branched into telegraph, cable and wireless communications. The Caribbean master-communicator got the house of Morgan behind him and has lately be come the foremost U. S. promoter, inter nationally...
...Lindbergh, punctual messenger, delivered the resolution when he reached Washington. President Coolidge also received a cablegram from President Antonio Barcelo of the Porto Rican Senate and Speaker Jose Toussoto of the Puerto Rican House, confirming the resolution's import. Disappointed, hurt, President Coolidge delayed answering until last fortnight, when he wrote a long letter to Horace Mann Towner, the onetime (1911-23) Congressman from Iowa whom President Harding made Governor of Porto Rico five years...