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Herbert Hoover: “The government is ably conducted by Porto Rican-born citizens and there are today only three or four important officials…”

On the recordMarch 25, 1931
The government is ably conducted by Porto Rican-born citizens and there are today only three or four important officials upon the island who were not born there.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Statement on Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

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