The Virgin Islands may have some military value sometime.
The island has been a success from a commercial view.
The government is ably conducted by Porto Rican-born citizens and there are today only three or four important officials...
We have reduced expenses by doing away with the Governor at St. Johns.
They have been extending their markets and have been making some shipments to England of bananas, with success.
We need a transformation in the Department of Agriculture to have a number of tropical plants developed in Porto Rico wh...
Porto Rico, with the assistance of the Government, is able to carry on.
Reports from American consuls assigned to 21 countries whose annual quotas total 148,466 of the total quota of 153,714 i...
the only important provision of the law useful in the circumstances is that one requiring the exclusion of those who are...
Viewed from every point except remote naval contingencies, it was unfortunate that we ever acquired these islands.
I HAVE RECEIVED the Resolutions in deep appreciation and with a vivid hope of the welfare of the Islands under cooperati...
I only wish I could stay longer and enlarge the acquaintance of my fellow citizens here.
I have been greatly impressed by the courage with which you have faced your difficulties.
We regard it as the oldest part of the United States.
I trust that the forthcoming national conference of the Joint Distribution Committee will result in continuation of the ...
I think 3 days sleep would do us all good. I am taking it all out mostly in sleep.
I have not given a great deal of attention to this, I shall probably give a 10 or 15 minute speech at some point.
It all depends how everyone feels. There are no rules about this voyage.
