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...Baldorioty Plaza, chief square of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in a comfortable rocking chair, last week sat Professor Clemente Pereda enjoying his Easter vacation from the University of Puerto Rico. There he received the homage of the populace, the visits of Puerto Rican notables. Policemen protected him from the crowds and a street was roped off for his benefit. Professor Pereda was engaged in a patriotic project, a seven-day hunger strike: 1) Against a proposal to make Puerto Rico one of the United States, 2) for Puerto Rican independence...
...Macoris, Dominican Republic, alighting in a fresh white suit, she was carried off by President Trujillo in his automobile bearing a large brass plaque "Primera Dama de la Republica!" to a palm-thatched pavilion where the President and Foreign Minister Arturo Lograno entertained her elegantly. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, she hugged Mrs. James Bourne, wife of the Relief Administrator. At St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, she spent a day, went for an early morning swim with Governor Pearson, visited Negro huts, made a speech. At St. Croix she accepted a 40-year-old bottle of rum in honor...
...serve two terms in New York's Assembly, three years (1921-24) as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. To help boys and Negroes he became a Boy Scout national executive committeeman, a trustee of Washington's Howard University. In 1929 President Hoover made him Governor of Puerto Rico. Conscientious, hardworking, sympathetic, he did his best to improve natives' health and prosperity, became as popular a governor as the island had ever had. He showed the same spirit, won the same reception as Governor-General of the Philippines in 1932-33. At leisure since then, he last week...
Thirty-two states, as well as the District of Columbia, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Canada, China, and Poland, are represented by the winners of these degrees...
...Warm Springs. Last July Mr. Hopkins, who is a great admirer of Mrs. Roosevelt, hired Miss Hickok and now she travels all over the country using her nose-for-news to report on relief conditions. Last week when it was announced that Mrs. Roosevelt planned to visit Puerto Rico in March, it became known that Miss Hickok would also go along to look into Mr. Hopkins' relief work there...