Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Porto Rican debating team, upholding the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved, That the United States cease to protect with armed forces American investments in the Caribbean, without prior declaration of war," defeated the Harvard team by a popular vote at Paine Hall last night...
Gabriel Guerra, Vincente Roure Jr., and W. A. J. Colorado composed the Porto Rican team, and L. S. Bew Sp., N. M. Sachs '29, and R. F. Courtney '29 composed the Harvard team...
...Roure, Jr., W A J Colorado, and Gabriel Guerra. Roure is a senior in the department of Education of his university, and at the same time is engaged in the instruction of health education and tropical hygiene. Colorado, a first year student, has won two awards of the Porto Rican Atheneum for excellence in poetry. Guerra is in his second year, and is closely connected with the Porto Rican Alliance, a political party in Porto Rico...
...Lindbergh, punctual messenger, delivered the resolution when he reached Washington. President Coolidge also received a cablegram from President Antonio Barcelo of the Porto Rican Senate and Speaker Jose Toussoto of the Puerto Rican House, confirming the resolution's import. Disappointed, hurt, President Coolidge delayed answering until last fortnight, when he wrote a long letter to Horace Mann Towner, the onetime (1911-23) Congressman from Iowa whom President Harding made Governor of Porto Rico five years...
...long, long letter. It harked back to the Treaty of Paris in 1899, under which Puerto Rico came from Spain to the U. S. It reminded Puerto Ricans that the U. S. never promised to make the island an independent state. It reminded Puerto Ricans what Puerto Ricans were like 30 years ago in the unpleasant language of a Puerto Rican (Dr. Cayetano Coll y Teste) who wrote...