Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Klux Klan are saving Green Stamps for an airplane for their noble, semiliterate leader [Nov. 12]. That is sickening, particularly to us in Taos, because we collect trading stamps too-for Christmas toys for children of poverty-stricken families. Our stamps are collected by people of three groups (Spanish-American, Indian, Anglo) for children of three groups in an area where these people have lived together cooperatively for years...
With an eye to tens of thousands of Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans in New York City who were disenfranchised by a 44-year-old state law requiring that voters demonstrate literacy in English, New York Senator Robert Kennedy last spring pinned a shirttail amendment on the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Labeled Section 4(e), it provided that no U.S. citizen could be denied the vote through a literacy test if he could prove he had a sixth-grade education in any "American flag school"-including the Spanish-language schools in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, where residents have long elected...
...result of Section 4(e), some 8,000 Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans registered to vote for the first time in the Nov. 2 elections. Last week, however, a three-judge Federal District Court in Washington ruled that the amendment was unconstitutional. A suit challenging the section claimed that, under Article I of the Constitution, Congress had no right to impose laws governing voter qualifications in any state. Government attorneys had argued that New York violated the 14th Amendment's "equal protection" clause by disenfranchising Puerto Rican voters, pointing out that Congress acted years ago to encourage cultural autonomy...
...country's gross national product is expected to reach $30 billion, almost twice its current $16.6 billion. As one of Europe's potential-growth speedsters, Spain has naturally attracted sizable inflows of foreign capital, which the government has welcomed. But inevitably the main job of financing Spanish business expansion must come from within the country...
Last week two of Spain's Big Five banks planned a merger that would help gear Spanish banking to the heavy demands ahead. It would meld Spain's biggest commercial bank, the Banco Hispano Americano (capitalization $19.6 million, reserves $47.2 million), with the Banco Central (capitalization $13.3 million, reserves $33.3 million). With these combined resources and 805 branches, the new bank would rank sixth in Europe...