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Puerto Rico's sugar economy cannot support a population (2,045,000 in 1946) which has more than doubled since the U.S. took the island as a dependency after the Spanish-American War. About one in eight employable Puerto Ricans has no job. The average family wage: $20 a month (about one-third of minimum needs by Puerto Rican standards...
Died. Richard Robert Wright,* 92, slave boy who grew up to be the top U.S. Negro banker, president of Georgia State Industrial College, a U.S. Army major in the Spanish-American War, and friend of every U.S. President since Hayes; in Philadelphia. Spry, spare Wright was founder and active head of Philadelphia's Citizens & Southern Bank & Trust Co. vengefully named after a Georgia bank that had once insulted his daughter...
...Washington, police had to break up a duel between two crotchety Spanish-American war veterans named Emilio Capeto and John Cook. They got into an argument over a woman, began fencing creakily with their canes, ended up by banging each other over the head...
Lucy became a rich spinster and a legend in the town, a legend that eventually woke up to itself and had the shakes. Richter's quiet sketching of the period after the Spanish-American War, and the life of the "better families" might seem merely nostalgic in intent, if it were not for the touches that finally bring bitter horror out of Lucy's narcissistic dream. At that point Richter actually makes a ghost (Lucy's dead father) walk...
...been victimized, but it was slower in learning how Spain had got herself in for it. The purely Spanish background of the Civil War has never been aired enough, though Spanish historians like Salvador de Madariaga have insisted on its importance. One of the few books to put light on the background is this long autobiography by an exiled Spaniard. It is valuable because it reflects in great detail the peculiar corruption and puzzlement of Spanish life between the Cuban (Spanish-American) and the Civil Wars...