Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Islands have long had a heavy axe to grind with some of the gentlemen from Nevada and Iowa, etc., who take up residence periodically in Washington. The Territory particularly resents it when full-blooded Americans start talking about "those American possessions, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Hawaii." The loyal American Islanders have an extreme aversion toward being "possessed," even when the United States is the "possessor," for the same reason that the multi-racial jury in the Fortescue-Massie case was royally irked when Clarence Darrow talked to it "as if we were a group of Middle Western farmers...
...Baldorioty Plaza, chief square of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in a comfortable rocking chair, last week sat Professor Clemente Pereda enjoying his Easter vacation from the University of Puerto Rico. There he received the homage of the populace, the visits of Puerto Rican notables. Policemen protected him from the crowds and a street was roped off for his benefit. Professor Pereda was engaged in a patriotic project, a seven-day hunger strike: 1) Against a proposal to make Puerto Rico one of the United States, 2) for Puerto Rican independence...
...days wore on Professor Pereda received more gifts-images of the Virgin, jigsaw puzzles. A former woman student, now a teacher, gave him (at his request) a manicure, and one patriotic young admirer took an oath not to shave until Puerto Rico was independent. As the professor grew weaker, he was moved to a cot in the reading room of the City Hall, facing the square. Too weak to speak, he read by the hour in Dante's Inferno. As the clock struck six one morning, the hour that ended his fast, Pereda sat up, crossed himself, bowed...
Back to Manhattan last week steamed the biggest boatload of doctors ever to put to sea. There were 375 of them, mostly with wives, and they were returning from 16 days of talking shop, seeing the sights and spreading goodwill in Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Members of the Pan American Medical Association, they had chartered the Panama-Pacific liner S. S. Pennsylvania, turned their Fifth Scientific Congress into a junket...
...Macoris, Dominican Republic, alighting in a fresh white suit, she was carried off by President Trujillo in his automobile bearing a large brass plaque "Primera Dama de la Republica!" to a palm-thatched pavilion where the President and Foreign Minister Arturo Lograno entertained her elegantly. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, she hugged Mrs. James Bourne, wife of the Relief Administrator. At St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, she spent a day, went for an early morning swim with Governor Pearson, visited Negro huts, made a speech. At St. Croix she accepted a 40-year-old bottle of rum in honor...