Word: statehood
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Puerto Ricans, mindful of the Democratic plank promising "ultimate Statehood," turned thumbs down on the Nationalist (independence) party, voted an overwhelming majority in the insular Legislature to Socialist and Republican candidates...
Dependencies. "Independence for the Philippines. . . . Ultimate statehood for Porto Rico...
...jibraros back on the land, to make them selfsupporting. Likewise he would increase the island's industrialization with the aid of ample waterpower. Porto Rico, for instance, produces 600,000 tons of raw sugar per year but lacks a big refinery. Politically Porto Rico wants full statehood (minor voices call for independence) or at least a civil territorial status like Hawaii and Alaska. Porto Ricans were outraged when the U. S. Congress at the last session classified it as a colony by appropriating $5,000 for it to exhibit at the International Colonial Exposition in France...
...Chicago, Mr. de Valera has been soliciting Irish money to start one more newspaper in support of his cause: freedom, legal Irishification of Ireland, statehood. "Mr. de Valera cannot be elected President," said Mr. Cosgrave confidently last week, "with the Dail as it is at present constituted...
When California was admitted to statehood, Juan Miranda assigned 13,400 acres of land near Petaluna to one Thomas B. Valentine. A poor protector of his own interests, Valentine failed to file this assignment with the U. S., with the result that he was "squatted" out of his holdings. He filed suit. The courts refused to give him back his own land, improved by squatters, but the U. S. recompensed him by issuing to him scrip (certificates) for 13,400 acres of public domain land anywhere else in the U. S. Valentine did not take up his acreage, but dribbled...