Puerto Rico impressions from a Puerto Rico teacher
Miss Josephine McGregor recounts life in Puerto Rico visiting San Juan and Cayey. She notes racial mixing among jibaros and whites, African ancestry of enslaved groups, diverse tropical flora, scarce wildlife, and a rich festival calendar with coronation balls, ferias, and dances. She documents church customs, architecture, and daily routines teaching in Cidra from 8:00 to 11:30 and 1:00 to 3:20, describing travel, scenery, and local agriculture including sugar cane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorado
Josephine McGregor
Cidra
Puerto Rico
Lear
New York
Guinea
San Juan Bautista
Barcelona
Spain
San Juan
Zulmala
Escambron
Ponce
el Yunque
Guayama
Cayey
Marie Smith Reports on Italy Austria Plebescite
Marie Smith reviews the Austrian political upheaval as Schuschnigg resigns under Nazi pressure and Germany asserts influence. The piece notes Mussolini’s cautious stance, the expected Austrian plebescite, and Italy’s strategic interests after the Rome Berlin Axis formation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
Mussolini
Duce
Schuschnigg
Germany
Hitler
Vienna
Italy
Brenner Pass
Rome-Berlin
Anthony Eden
Government Students See Washington and Congress Tour
A group of government students visits Washington hitting the Department of Agriculture Building and the FDA exhibit criticizing impure foods and counterfeit cosmetics. They tour the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, the FBI, and observe House and Senate proceedings before returning to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Food and Drug Administration
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bureau
House of Representatives
Senate
New York
Local tobacco grower notes Camels source its leaf
James Graves, a longtime planter, says he can judge tobacco quality and that most local growers, including himself, sold their best leaf to Camels. He adds that he knows tobacco well enough to smoke Camels. Copyright 1988 Rudolph W. Reynolda tobacco Company Winston-Salem North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Bivins
James Graves
R. J. Reynolda Tobscco Company
Winaton-Salem, North Carolina
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Bulletin
Cavey
Marie Smith
Boston
Marjorie B. Greene
Harcourt St
Mass
New England
American Medical Association
Virginia Beach
Naval Base
Shirley Ellenbogen
Student
Phone Railway Express
Columbus Avenue
Murray Hill
New York, N. Y
Betty Middleton
Ray Winters
Ray
Camel
Betty
Jettes
America
E.S.T
C.S.T
M.S.T
Columbia Network
Benny Goodman
Goodman
Tobacco Planters Report
Vault Snowden
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