Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insurance to those credited with greater amounts (TIME, May 5 et pre.) had been settled. The dates of effect were now fixed as Jan. 1, 1925, for insurance certificates and March 1, 1925, for cash. Female yeomen of the Navy and of the Marine Corps and the Porto Rican regiment infantry were included in the benefits of the bill; Philippine Scouts excluded...
...That members of the Public Health Service should not receive the benefits of the bill, but that female yeomen of the Navy, female marines, Philippine scouts and the Porto Rican regiment of infantry should receive its benefits...
...Visitors at the White House, aside from officials, included the Rev. G. A. Studdert Kennedy ("Woodbine Willie"), chaplain to the King of England; the graduating class of the New York School for the Deaf; Senator Jose T. Solo of Porto Rico, who pleaded for Porto Rican statehood; the Japanese Ambassador to present Vice Admiral Kenji Ide; Senator Fess and John N. Willys (automobiles) for luncheon...
...Visitors at the White House included : Judge E. H. Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation, who declared that the change to an eight-hour day in the steel mills had increased the cost of production 10%; Governor Towner of Porto Rico and members of the Porto Rican legislature; the "Coolidge-for-President" Club of New Jersey-its members wearing six-inch red-white-and-blue buttons, "Coolidge Again"; Speaker Gillett of the House, introducing his nephew; Sir Robert Home; Charles D. Hilles, Republican leader in New York; Comptroller of the Currency Dawes and three Indianapolis bankers; Governor Morrow...
...Porto Rican delegation called on the President and urged that the Island be permitted to select its own executive officers and judges...