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Word: ricans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn, one Christine Garcia, 6-ft.-2-in., 200-lb. Porto Rican, got home from work, took umbrage at the music his sister was playing on the phonograph, tossed the phonograph out of the window, barked his shins on a table, threw the table after the phonograph, went from room to room performing feats. His sister ran for a policeman. Mr. Garcia knocked down the peaked bluecoat. Came another. Mr. Garcia bit him; he hit Mr. Garcia with a blackjack; Mr. Garcia dived from the window into the clutches of two more officers who lugged him, roaring, off to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Pullman | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...Porto Rican elections held Nov. 4, 1924, are the greatest outrage upon American citizenship ever committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Season's Greetings | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...PORTO RICAN ELECTIONS PROTEST COMMITTEE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Season's Greetings | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...although the world is led to think differently. Encouraged by the rebels' success in Spanish Morocco, part of the native population under the sway of France and Italy began to growl. France and Italy claimed that the constant disorders in Spanish Morocco imperiled the peace of their North Af rican possessions; the implication was that Spain must either keep her Moroccan house in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Africa | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

Costa Rica. The Costa Rican Constitutional Congress ratified a convention and protocol with the U. S., the terms of which facilitate the work of traveling salesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Notes, Jul. 7, 1924 | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

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