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Last week in Puerto Rico eligible voters had to be at their polling places by high noon. Precisely at that hour doors were closed against late comers and voting began. As their votes were recorded, voters were allowed to slip out quietly one by one. When the last Puerto Rican left his polling place the election was all over but the counting. When the counting was all over it was revealed that white-thatched old Santiago Iglesias, the Samuel Gompers of his island, had been re-elected Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner in Washington over Dr. José Lopez...
...hours by a strike of 40 seamen and stewards demanding overtime pay. . . . On the Great Lakes, the American Radio Telegraphists Association struck for better labor conditions on four freight lines. ... In San Francisco, crew troubles tied up the President Hoover, San Anselmo, Maui and Willhilo. ... In San Juan, Puerto Rico, a crew strike held the freighter West Mahwah in port...
...Sandburg came back to hometown Galesburg wearing the blue of a private who had seen service with the 6th Illinois Volunteers in Porto Rico. Hero Sandburg resumed his poverty-ridden studies at Lombard College. Edgar Lee Masters came to Knox College from Kansas, stayed several years, and prepared for life in a law office...
...days ago both here and in Europe that I am preparing to exhume the body of Peter Stuart Ney, buried at Third Creek Presbyterian Church, here in North Carolina, in order to solve this 90-year-old mystery, my associates and I have received letters from Europe, Canada, Puerto Rico, and all parts of the U. S., and among those writing was a son of a former President of the United States, a U. S. Senator, several college presidents and prominent authors as well as historians. Just thought you would be interested in knowing the type of people...
...nominee for world's featherweight champion, Mike Belloise, and England's Dave Crowley. It ended in the ninth round when the referee refused to allow Crowley's claim of foul, counted him out instead. Four nights before in Manhattan, fiery little Sixto Escobar of Puerto Rico improved his claim to the world's bantamweight title by forcing his opponent, Pittsburgh's Tony Marino, to stop after the 13th round, when both his eyes were cut so badly that he could...