Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laying cruiser Emile Bertain, two light cruisers, four destroyers and a patrol ship. At Guadeloupe, just north, lay the training cruiser Jeanne d'Arc. British cruisers prowled so near, defying the French to run for home, that jittery Martinique complained it was blockaded. U. S. warships in the Virgin Islands kept steam up for a dash to maintain the sanctity of President Franklin Roosevelt's "Neutral Zone." Without hindrance from the British, two U. S. steamers laden with food entered Martinique...
...gone to the refiners of imported cane, allocated as follows: 2,000,000 tons to Cuba, whose cheap cane competes with domestic beet after paying a .9? tariff; the rest to four duty-free areas, the Philippines (nearly 1,000.000 tons), Puerto Rico (800,000), Virgin Islands (8,900), Hawaii (900,000 tons). The domestic cane growers & refiners in Florida and Louisiana get another 400,000 tons...
...lobby and its friendly rival, the Cuban cane lobby, have sought to limit imports from U. S.-owned sugar countries. This "unholy alliance" drew Humanitarian Roosevelt's wrath-as it would also draw the wrath of Libertarian Wendell Willkie. President Roosevelt reminded Congress that Hawaiians. Puerto Ricans and Virgin Islanders "are American citizens . . . with local governments that lack the protection of statehood," i.e. Senators...
Question 24 asked, "Which of the following standards of sex behavior do you practice?" and then listed a few suggestions. Question 25 was, "Would you wish your wife to be a virgin at marriage...
Emerson is to head the division of territories and island possessions, which includes Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, termed Emerson's post the number one position in the administration of overseas dependencies...