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Nevertheless, an outstanding episode during the Lindbergh visit occurred when the visitor's swart compatriots made him the bearer of a concurrent resolution of their Legislature, addressed to President Coolidge, asking that Puerto Rico be separated from the U. S., as an independent State, so that its people should be "Americans" no longer. The reason given was that a "grave economic situation" existed. There were jobs for only one in three of Puerto Rico's 1,250,000 inhabitants and this, charged the native politicos, was the fault...
While echoes of Governor General Stimson's inaugural speech still rang in the Philippine press, a short, swart, bald, bearded little man in Washington put finishing touches on a speech of his own, sent it to the U. S. House of Representatives, caused his trunks to be packed and, with his wife, started for home. Governor General Stimson had declared flatly his opposition to Philippine independence in anything like the near future (TIME, March 12). The little man in Washington, Resident Commissioner Isauro Gabaldon of the Philippines, was resigning and going home, not only to keep independence sentiment alive...
...Walter's grandson, Walter Leslie Runciman, 27, is no seaman but has married a daughter (Rosamond) of famed Cambridge rowing coach R. C. Lehmann. Everyone knows that swart Rosamond Lehmann has written a best selling novel-Dusty Answer...
...Passed a resolution formally seating swart, Wet, loquacious Representative La Guardia of New York, whose right to sit had been contested...
...York's swart La Guardia began to talk: "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I am as 'Wet' as any man in this House. . . . What we as 'Wets' ought to do ... is . . . insist upon the Prohibition Bureau having sufficient men, appropriating enough money. ... If the American people want Prohibition ... it will cost them anywhere from...