Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week dusting wicker chairs and a gold telephone, shaking out blankets, putting clean sheets on beds. On Feb. 1, barring further violence, Honduras will have a new President - General Tiburcio Carias Andino, burly, mustachioed farmer and reformed hotblood. President Vicente Mejia Colindres will retire to the bawdy seaport of Puerto Cortes, where he expects to practice medicine and raise cattle from a stock of three blooded cows impregnated by three blooded bulls presented to him by United Fruit Co. after the election last October...
Along the Panama coast he left his impress. There still is a Caledonia Bay and a Puerto Escocés. The San Blas Indians occasionally breed a blond child. When the San Blas and Choco medicine men want to carve a really imposing fetish on a medicine cane, they give long-nosed William Paterson a waistcoat, shirt, necktie, collar, buttons, striped trousers, paint his coat black or green...
...Washington, Santiago Iglesias has been elected Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in the U. S. Congress. He has eight daughters named Liberty, America, Justice, Fraternity, Equality, Peace, Light and Victory Iglesias...
...Territories, a U. S. national election is like a neighbor's party to which you are not invited. You are bothered by all the noise but do not have any fun. Nevertheless, Alaska. Puerto Rico and Hawaii had their own private little political upsets, vindications and landslides last week...
...Puerto Ricans, mindful of the Democratic plank promising "ultimate Statehood," turned thumbs down on the Nationalist (independence) party, voted an overwhelming majority in the insular Legislature to Socialist and Republican candidates...