Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the secretary of Mallorca's Tourist Agency, Judge Francisco Vidal, had been appointed to try the case. He knew well his duty to Mallorcan prejudice, by which U. S. tourists are rated "too fresh," U. S. women "prostitutes" because they drink and wear beach pajamas in public. He knew what U. S. tourists were threatening, knew also his duty to the Spanish Guardia Civil. "There must be a trial, even if it means an American boycott of Mallorca," cried Judge Vidal, "and I cannot grant bail...
...grave concern"-fairly strong diplomatic talk. In Madrid, Ambassador Bowers received a letter from the male prisoners: "We are now four in a cell. . . . The stench is unbelievable." They concluded that the female prisoner, Mrs. Caroline Lockwood, "shows alarming signals of an approaching breakdown." In his tourist bureau Judge Vidal said authoritatively. "They cannot expect first-class hotel life while in jail...
...overran Mallorca: U. S. hard-drinkers who wanted to live like characters in a novel by Ernest Hemingway. They set up their own bars in Mallorca's famed caves. They started a fad of imitating a peacock's screech, slept all day, screeched like peacocks all night. Tourist prices began to skid upward. Travel publicity brought new thousands of law-abiding U. S. tourists, many of whom stayed to open their own shops, restaurants, travel bureaus and pensions...
Somebody in your neighborhood at home will have told you about the park's bears. There are some 700 black and silver-tipped grizzlies this year, so you are bound to see plenty. The park service runs tourist camps, but you can safely pitch your tent anywhere. (For ferocious bears, go to Katamai National Monument, Alaska, rivaled as a game range only by Belgian Congo's gorilla preserve.) There are more bison (1,000) and elk (10,000) in the park than the mountainous area could support in the winter if hunters did not kill...
...mass in the cathedral. To Puerto Ricans this was an auspicious start. Then he repaired to the capitol for his inaugural address. Unlike Governor Theodore Roosevelt he learned no Spanish, gave his speech in English. Chief points of the Gore New Deal were: 1) legalization of cockfighting to encourage tourist trade. This the natives cheered. 2) Opposition to birth control: "I believe that the great God will, in His own plans and His own way, control the population of the world."* This was a sharp reversal of the policy of ex-Governor Beverley who insisted that Puerto Rico...