Word: insularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pieces of legislation requested by President Roosevelt were denied him by a docile Congress. One was a bill authorizing him to name a nonresident as Governor of Hawaii. The measure squeaked through the House but the Senate let it die as the result of cries of outrage from the insular Democracy...
Robert Hayes Gore was made Governor of Puerto Rico last July not because he was particularly informed on insular affairs but because he had loudly thumped for President Roosevelt's election in his string of Florida newspapers, had made it plain in Washington that he wanted an appointment in return. Though he had had no experience in public office, Puerto Ricans were ready to consider him "simpatico" because he was a Roman Catholic and had nine children. But ceremony-loving Puerto Ricans, accustomed to the tact and diplomacy of Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and the quiet efficiency of Governor...
...reasons could have entered the President's decision to call for a suspension in Hawaii's home-rule law. The threat of a mainland Governor might be enough to keep the island Democratic machine under control. In 1931-32 the Massie rape & murder case gave the insular government a black eye, revealed an unwholesome connection between local politics, local justice and local race feeling. Aware of the strategic importance of the islands, high Army & Navy officers have long demanded civilian rule stronger and better than resident Governors have been able to supply. Of late Big Business...
...Received from the Insular Affairs Committee a bill to grant U. S. citizenship to Samoans, give them a civil government...
...pilots observed no silence. To put crepe on an airplane's wing is against all aviation superstition. Whether or not insular, U. S. airmen never regarded Santos-Dumont as a figure in U. S. aviation. Orville Wright was one of the few who ever...