Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most interesting addition to our already considerable collection of waitress-lore was made last week. We learned that occasionally during the past few months Union waitresses and student waiters have arranged small dances for themselves. The more recent affairs have been held in the neighborhood of Central Square...
...read with much amusement and quite a little regret your graphic and colorful sketch of my old friend J. Duncan Spaeth in a recent issue of your excellent journal [TIME, April 13] Parts of it are fair and true. There can be no doubt that this versatile scholar and forceful figure and leader of men is careless of his appearances, and well might be likened to a shaggy Airedale. While he is a splendid teacher, an inspiring athletic coach, a distinguished orator and leader of his fellows in many fields, little was said in your account of his intellectual side...
...Then the election machinery in the island is not complimentary to the island at all, because the recent registration of voters in Puerto Rico shows that out of 852,832 persons over 21 years of age in the island, 852,904 of them are registered voters. In other words, there are about 100 more people registered in Puerto Rico and qualified to vote than there are people of both sexes over 21 years of age in the island...
...Administration than to keep a people, not consulted originally about its annexation, under our flag if they do not desire to be there. ... If, on the other hand, they decide to remain American citizens under the American flag it will settle the question which has agitated the island during recent years...
...Washington on insular business, Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico called in the Press, gave them a glowing report on conditions in the island, belittled recent disturbances, ducked any direct mention of the Tydings bill. Said this onetime soldier: "The past two years in Puerto Rico have been free of serious trouble. Too much publicity has been given to the assassination of Colonel Riggs. . . . The relations between private employers and employes are of the best. There is no rift between Capital and Labor on the island; there never has been and there never will...