Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nicaragua, Dr. Adolfo Diaz, will now be maintained in office by U. S. marines until 1928, the Liberal President of Nicaragua, Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, recognized by Mexico (TIME, Dec. 20), fled to Costa Rica and was banqueted in San Jose last week by a group of Costa Rican deputies...
...Manhattan Magistrate: "I, famed for my vitality, for my vigorous interest in matrimonial felicity (TIME, June 28), last week adjusted a flagrant case of impending desertion. One Martha Rosa, 20, appeared in my court charging that one Sixto Margon, 21, Negro, steward on S. S. Cuemo of the Porto Rican Line, was that day sailing for Porto Rico, intending to desert her in a crisis. I at once despatched a detective, who arrested Steward Margon just as the gangplank was being drawn up. After I had lectured him, he married Miss Rosa forthwith. I was congratulating them, when suddenly Margon...
Last week, in Washington, able Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis perused thoroughly the annual Porto Rican report of Governor Horace Mann Towner, smiled. It was brief, comprehensive, encouraging...
...Princeton Theological Seminary occupied the pulpit of the little Presbyterian Church at Saranac Lake, N. Y., whither came the President and Mrs. Coolidge, Frank W. Stearns, Senator Cameron of Arizona. ¶ Last December soldiers in the barracks at Culebra, Panama Canal Zone, watched horrified while one Ramon Cordero, Porto Rican native in the U. S. army, shot, killed Corporal Antonio Cruzalso. Last week, following President Coolidge's approval of his sentence, Cordero was hanged by the neck until dead. ¶ Three years ago a long, black funeral train crossed this vast continent bearing in sombre state one lone coffin...
...interrupted by the arrival of a courier from the President to the Senate, was at a loss to remember his subject. "Was I addressing myself o the Pure Food Bill or the Statehood Bill", he asked the presiding officer. "The Senator from Alabama was addressing himself to the Porto Rican Citizenship Bill," came the answer. Thereupon Mr. Morgan continued his speech on the topic of the Nicarauguan Canal...