Word: juan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...torn and disrupted. The island has a population of 1,400,000. It was estimated that at least half of this number were left homeless. Chaos prevented a complete count of the dead, but early reports from nine towns indicated that 263 were known to have perished. In San Juan, the principal city, 300 chattering consumptives were forced into the open. Seventy lepers, the roofs of their colony blown away, were gingerly herded into an administration building...
Horace Mann Towner, governor of the island, hurriedly cabled the War Department: "Full relief and reconstruction will probably reach into millions." Refugees from the rural districts poured into San Juan. Food prices skyrocketed. Eight representative islanders. watching three days pass in aimless water-soaked turmoil, wrote to the governor. "For 72 hours," they stated, "more than 300.000 people of this island, to estimate conservatively, have had little or nothing to eat and they will have nothing to eat for at least another week unless immediate and drastic action is taken. . . . Disease and famine are already here." They urged four relief...
...Died. Juan Pablo Rifo, 90, thirteen times a widower, whose 14th wife survives him; in San Carlos, Chile...
...beauty of this city and the comfort of its people." ¶ The welcoming ceremony, delayed a week because of Mrs. Hoover's father's death (TIME, July 30), was by no means the most exacting part of the Beaver Man's week. Rising early on San Juan Hill and staying up late, he worked and reworked, in longhand, his speech accepting the nomination. He conferred constantly with visiting politicos and friends -Senator Johnson of California and his manager, Charles L. Neumiller; Attorney-General Ottinger of New York, who aspires to succeed Governor Smith; Mrs. Worthington Scranton, dashing...
...rustle discreet congratulations to a Queen now almost as venerable and quite as upstanding as they. How much the royal trees have looked upon, and how much she. . . . Princess Emma. Sixty-two was the age of dissolute King Willem III of the Netherlands, justly famed as "The Dutch Don Juan," when in 1879 he married Princess Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont, who was then...