Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...landscapes, mostly of each artist's native town, plain, mountain, sierra, river, lake or desert. Overwhelming majority of the artists were entirely unknown, uninspired, surprisingly competent. A bad start were the Hawaiian entries, except for John C. Young's painting of blue-white water foaming against rocks. Puerto Rico's N. Poy was even worse with a peon and green bananas. The Panama Canal Zone had a slightly superior cubic nude by Blanche Lupfer. The Virgin Islands scraped the show's low. Alaska was not represented...
...There are no Stock Exchanges in Puerto Rico or Alaska...
...understatement by Senator Tyding The calculation that 852,832 adults exist in Puerto Rico was made by counting everyone over 15 who whas recorded by the cencus of 1930, but making no allowance for any deaths in the last five years In one municipality where census showed 9,775 people over 15 in 1930, there are now 14,144 registered voters...
Actual purpose of the independence bill was hinted by Director Ernest Gruening of the Interior Department's Division of Territories and Island Possessions: to remind Puerto Rico that, although U. S. colonies perpetually grumble, the colonial arrangement usually works much more to their profit than to the profit of the U. S. Said Dr. Gruening last week: "Nothing could be further from the spirit and purpose of this Administration than to keep a people, not consulted originally about its annexation, under our flag if they do not desire to be there. ... If, on the other hand, they decide...
...Washington on insular business, Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico called in the Press, gave them a glowing report on conditions in the island, belittled recent disturbances, ducked any direct mention of the Tydings bill. Said this onetime soldier: "The past two years in Puerto Rico have been free of serious trouble. Too much publicity has been given to the assassination of Colonel Riggs. . . . The relations between private employers and employes are of the best. There is no rift between Capital and Labor on the island; there never has been and there never will...