Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from being troubled by race problems, Hawaiians are proud of their islands as a place where 146,000 Japanese, 66,000 Filipinos. 27,000 Chinese, 22,000 Polynesians, 29,000 Portuguese, 7,000 Puerto Ricans, 45,000 whites and 31,000 mixed breeds all live happily together, intermarry and get along more peaceably than any other similar mixture in the world...
...Like southern planters before the Civil War they built up a comfortable society based economically on agriculture. Like the South, also, the mudsill of their society was cheap labor. First they imported Chinese and Portuguese, then Japanese, and, when the "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan was made, Filipinos and Puerto Ricans. These peoples arrived by the shipload, were quartered in agricultural camps, given free housing, free water, free wood, free medical service. In spite of small wages it was a beneficent system?too beneficent, as it turned out. The Chinese coolie who contentedly grew rice in the river bottoms...
...Houston halted at Hampton Roads to discharge the last batch of official mail, before passing out between Capes Henry and Charles. Ahead lay a long itinerary: a stop at Cap Haitien, so that President Roosevelt could pay a return call on President Vincent of Haiti; another stop at Puerto Rico; and then the three little Virgin Islands which 17 years ago gave up their maiden name, the Danish West Indies, when they were married...
...installed a water cooler between them. When President Roosevelt boards the Houston at the end of this month the gig will be swinging from the cruiser's davits. ready as a fishing boat whenever the President feels inclined to cast a line overboard on his holiday journey to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Pacific Coast, Hawaii...
...Swooping down on the dingy tin-roofed villages of Vistica and Puerto Grande last week, Argentine police arrested 27 cattle thieves and discovered an ardent admirer of NRA. Cattle Thief Francisco Atenor Gomez, painfully picking his way through Buenos Aires newspapers, had evolved a plan to up the price of stolen cattle by setting up a rustler's code for six other bands of cattle thieves, pooling stolen cattle in secret corrals until prices rose. At the police station he was only too glad to explain...