Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Campos was at court preparing to defend the sole survivor of last autumn's bombing expedition to the University, when he was asked to go over and be arrested. Six of his followers, including his personal secretary, the party secretary and two poets, were also arrested. While the Puerto Rican National Guard was held under arms in its armories, ready for any emergency, Nationalist headquarters throughout the island were raided. The police found one loaded Springfield, one bomb, 50 wooden guns, and a batch of "Army of Liberation" enlistment cards. Charged with sedition and conspiracy to overthrow the Federal...
...demand that the U. S. get out of Puerto Rico or fight...
...despite the highest sugar prices in years, made $3,571,000 in 1935, a considerable slide from the $4,877,000 profit in 1934. Chairman Earl D. Babst loudly blamed the company's loss of business on Government quotas, declared that import allowances for refined sugar from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines had made refineries hum on those islands while "domestic refineries are working at half capacity...
...recent Puerto Rican political campaigns Nationalists made an earnest effort to win by murdering a number of opposition workers. Last autumn Nationalists rioted at Rio Piedras, with the result that four of them were killed by the police. Resentful indeed were their colleagues because of this massacre...
...which is located in the Astronomy Laboratory on Jarvis Street, has already contacted Mexico, Spain, and Puerto Rico, as well as stations throughout the United States. Plans are being made to establish connections with the University's southern astronomical station at Bleemfontein, South Africa...