Word: porto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Visible Empire. The seeds of empire, sown the last decade of the last century, first sprouted in 1893 when 160 U. S. Marines were landed for a Hawaiian "revolution." Later the islands were annexed to put their sugar production inside the U. S. tariff wall. The Spanish War added Porto Rico, the Philippines and Guam as imperial outposts, gave the U. S. a protectorate over Cuba. From the 1902 revolution in Panama the U. S. got land for the canal, laid the foundation for U. S. dominion over the Caribbean. Theodore Roosevelt, if not an imperialist, was a master empire...
...Magie; the late financier Cleveland Hoadley Dodge; the late famed Judge Alfred Salem Niles of Baltimore; the late Banker Trustee Parker Douglas Handy of Manhattan; Robert Harris McCarter, onetime (1903-08) Attorney-General of New Jersey; the late Peter Joseph Hamilton of Mobile, author, onetime (1913-21) Judge of Porto Rican District Court...
...following figures, compiled by the National Student Federation, indicate the trend of student migrations: Canada 1,173. China 1,109. Japan 814. Philippines 804. Russia 504. England 369. Germany 360. Mexico 271. Porto Rico 250. India 208. Italy 203. Hawatt...
Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico and (selfstyled) "ambassador to the Caribbean," gets help from newspapermen on the tyro Spanish in which, with dogged goodwill, he addresses his charges when- ever he can. Last week one newspaperman could not forbear to relay to the U. S. two of the Governor's better "breaks" in recent Spanish-speeches...
Passenger. Col. Theodore Roosevelt's wife's aunt, Mrs. Hoffman, 70, once declared that she would never ride in an ocean steamer, much less an airplane. Col. Roosevelt is now Governor of Porto Rico. Last week aged Mrs. Hoffman flew to San Juan from Miami to spend the fashionable Antillean season...