Status of Puerto Rico: Selected Background StudiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1966 - 973 páginas |
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administration AGENCY STARTED OPERATIONS agricultural American Annual median salary areas Aruba autonomy bill Buildings and office Caribbean Classified Commonwealth civil colonial Committee Cong Congress constitution Council Cuba culture Curacao DATE AGENCY STARTED Départements d'Outre-Mer Department economic election employment English enrollment EXECUTIVE OR DIRECTOR Foraker Act French French Guiana Government of Puerto Governor Guadeloupe House independence industrial insular island José labor legislation mainland Martinique ment Method of selection migration Muñoz Marín Nationality place born Netherlands Antilles number of functionaries office space facilities organization oversea departments Paramaribo party percent persons political Popular Democratic Party Popular Democrats population President problems property owned and/or proposed Public Law P.R. Puerto Rico Rican Rico's Río Piedras San Juan Senate sess social society Spanish statehood status SUMMARY OF FUNCTIONS Surinam territory tion U.S. Congress Union United University of Puerto vote workers York City
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Página 501 - The Government of India have however declared and affirmed India's desire to continue her full membership of the Commonwealth of Nations and her acceptance of the King as the symbol of the free association of its independent member nations and as such the Head of the Commonwealth.
Página 438 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Página 512 - I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races...
Página 342 - Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Página 150 - For the individual, the doors to the schoolhouse, to the library and to the college lead to the richest treasures of our open society: to the power of knowledge --to the training and skills necessary for productive employment -- to the wisdom, the ideals, and the culture which enrich life — and to the creative, self-disciplined understanding of society needed for good citizenship in today's changing and challenging world.
Página 166 - It is an indispensable part of American policy that the coming generation of American citizens in Puerto Rico grow up with complete facility in the English tongue.
Página 454 - The new Cuba yet to arise from the ashes of the past must needs be bound to us by ties of singular intimacy and strength if its enduring welfare is to be assured. Whether those ties shall be organic or conventional, the destinies of Cuba are in some rightful form and manner irrevocably linked with our own, but how and how far is for the future to determine in the ripeness of events.
Página 458 - United •States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.
Página 474 - ... process by which a number of separate political communities enter into arrangements for working out solutions, adopting joint policies and making joint decisions on joint problems...
Página 939 - ... acted under the directions of the Secretary of the Treasury, or other proper officer of the Government...