Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yearly budgets voted in 1931 from $4,225,000 to $2,898,000 to $2,716,855. Besides a deficit of $529,000 incurred last year, a 1934 deficit of $500,000 impends. If this is not made up the National Council may abandon missionary work in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska where venerable Peter Trimble Rowe has been laboring as bishop for 40 years...
...Division of Research & Planning. Head of NRA's Labor Advisory Board is Dr. Leo Wolman (prolabor but not a radical), who also sits on the National Labor Board and heads the Automobile Labor Board. And finally there is Rose Schneiderman (Labor Advisory Board) who last January went to Puerto Rico to iron out its labor difficulties and, more recently, has threatened to sue Dr. Wirt for calling her "Red Rose of Anarchy...
Last week the Senate put its approval (49-to-18) on the House bill practically without change. Amendments to fix the Hawaiian quota at 975,000 tons and the Puerto Rican quota at 875,000 were defeated. Only the beet sugar industry was favored over the President's proposal...
Senator Copeland of New York (Manhattan has a large Puerto Rican population) declared: ''To overlook the obligations we owe to Puerto Rico and its citizens is something I cannot approve. The act will add at least 200 million dollars a year to the cost of sugar. ... In short. we ruthlessly abandon Puerto Rico and dig into our pocketbooks for the beet sugar farmers...
...Puerto Rican Senate last week adopted (11-to-3) a House resolution which made territorial history. For the first time the insular legislature petitioned the Congress in Washington to call a constitutional convention for the admission of Puerto Rico to the Union as the 49th State. The three opponents of the resolution were Liberals who demanded not Statehood but Independence. The argument for Statehood: it would insure peace and plenty. The argument against: it would mean economic ruin and degrade Puerto Rico's "national soul...