Word: puertorriqueno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning one Luis Baldoni, young Puertorriqueno working for the Rockefeller staff at San Juan, found the discarded note, ran with it to Pedro Albizu y Campos, president of the Nationalist Party of Porto Rico. That shrewd politico at once ordered photostatic copies of the letter. A political struggle for control of the island legislature was on, and here was a mighty club to wield. Natives might be made to believe that the Yanquis were plotting to kill them all. At any rate the point was worth clamoring about...
Last month Politico Albizu y Campos struck. Local newspapers printed fac similes of the letter. For those unable to read English, there were translations into Spanish. Every third Puertorriqueno is il literate. To such, spellbinders read the horrendous tidings. The Pope in Vatican City received a photostat of the holograph...
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