Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lukewarm Puerto Ricans...
...issue of TIME, p. 11, under "Balls," I find the following statement: "Fun-loving Puerto Ricans decided to regard the occasion as a saint's festival, knocked off for a whole week." The statement, picturesque as it is creates a wrong impression. Reasons...
...saint is President Roosevelt to Puerto Ricans, fun-loving or not. Although personally he is admired as a talented leader, the extension of the New Deal to the island has been delayed for so long that Puerto Ricans are lukewarm toward the Administration...
...proclamation of a "President's Week" by . . . ceremonious Governor Blanton ("The Sphynx") Winship, was considered a political move of the Governor to catch the Presidential eye, did not arouse any enthusiasm among levelheaded Puerto Ricans...
...Little America, Admiral Byrd blasted a greeting on the Jacob Ruppert's whistle. Five hundred celebrants at Ketchikan, Alaska waded through snowdrifts for a dance. Fun-loving Puerto Ricans decided to regard the occasion as a saint's festival, knocked off for a whole week. Convicts at the Illinois State penitentiary in Joliet had their work day reduced from eight hours...