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...Greek for "life-strength." By his own efforts, he is a naturalized American. A touch of World War heroism becomes his dark, tall, military bearing-he was a lieutenant colonel, won the D. S. M., was a member of the Legion of Honor. He started by electrifying Porto Rico's wilderness, then Cuba's, Mexico's, Chile's. These were telephone operations, at first, but soon branched into telegraph, cable and wireless communications. The Caribbean master-communicator got the house of Morgan behind him and has lately be come the foremost U. S. promoter, inter nationally...
...Senate and Speaker Jose Toussoto of the Puerto Rican House, confirming the resolution's import. Disappointed, hurt, President Coolidge delayed answering until last fortnight, when he wrote a long letter to Horace Mann Towner, the onetime (1911-23) Congressman from Iowa whom President Harding made Governor of Porto Rico five years...
Perceiving that what President Coolidge had written would not please Puerto Ricans, Governor Towner withheld publication of this letter until after the conclusion of festivities held last week on the 25th anniversary of the University of Puerto Rico...
When the letter came out, President Coolidge was revealed as a champion of injured innocence, for he frankly pointed to the incomparably "considerate" treatment Puerto Rico had enjoyed from the U. S. and imputed ingratitude to critics of that treatment...
...long, long letter. It harked back to the Treaty of Paris in 1899, under which Puerto Rico came from Spain to the U. S. It reminded Puerto Ricans that the U. S. never promised to make the island an independent state. It reminded Puerto Ricans what Puerto Ricans were like 30 years ago in the unpleasant language of a Puerto Rican (Dr. Cayetano Coll y Teste) who wrote...