Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delaying Action? In Manhattan, the Rev. Truman B. Douglass, vice president of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Churches, said that his church's Ryder Hospital in predominantly Catholic Puerto Rico is experimenting with contraceptive pills. "This service to the cause of population control." he said, "is a positive expression of Christian compassion and humanitarian concern...
Claims Staked. Three presidential hopefuls have staked out claims on the area. In Puerto Rico last week, Senator Hubert Humphrey proposed a program of greater economic aid, arms reductions, a review of U.S. trade and tariff policies. Adlai Stevenson will tour Latin America in February. Nelson Rockefeller, the State Department's 1940-44 coordinator of inter-American affairs, recently suggested a single common market embracing the U.S. and the 20 Latin American states. Other high-level concern...
...Newcomers, third volume in a unique study of metropolitan New York by the Graduate School of Public Administration, reaches book stands today. In it, Oscar Handlin, professor of History, assesses the position of Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a changing metropolis...
Handlin concludes that Negro and Puerto Rican groups must develop closer communal institutions. He points out that these ethnic groups will continue to live in cohesive settlements, and does not believe that dispersal will solve economic and social prejudice...
Blind Loyalty. He hated war (he went from private to major in the Civil War), but took Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines in a war that was as close to comic opera as a shooting war could be. Some members of the Cabinet were so incompetent that only blind party loyalty could account for his devotion. His political mentor, Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, was so obviously the errand boy of the trusts that not even the wildest admirer of McKinley could hope to explain away the President's regard for big business. Yet Author Leech shows McKinley...