Word: porto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...states and countries to which this reciprocity applies are Arizona, California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawall, Manitoba, Maryland, Nebraska, New York, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Porto Rico, Vermont...
Lids Toro, president of Porto American Tobacco Co. since it was founded in 1899, resigned, also resigned as chairman of the company's two big subsidiaries, Congress Cigar Co. Inc. and Waitt & Bond, Inc. President James M. Porter of Congress was made president of Porto Rican, President William E. Waterman of Waitt & Bond was made chairman of Porto Rican-a new office. Porto Rican makes Ricoro, La Restina, Portina, El Toro and other cigars, also El Toro Cigarets which are mostly sold in Porto Rico. Congress makes La Palina Cigars; Waitt & Bond makes Blackstones...
...most meritorious. They should be withheld until the country is in better condition."* ¶ Rain and cold greeted President Hoover when he arrived at his Rapidan camp for the weekend. Most of his time was spent sitting around a roaring log fire talking to Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico-possibly, guessed the Press, about Governor Roosevelt's being sent to the Philippines to relieve Dwight Filley Davis...
...hundred and fifty bands and drum corps spurred on a four-mile parade which took nine hours to pass the reviewing stand. Some 40,000 people paid $3 each to watch the parade from a specially constructed grandstand. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. came all the way from his governorship in Porto Rico to stride by waving his hat and exhibiting a big-toothed grin somewhat like his father's. In sidetracked Pullmans at Windsor. Legionaries were pictured leaning out of windows with bottles of foaming brew in their hands and pointing to what they had scrawled along...
Most of the recent big blows from the Caribbean have been in September. It is not unusual for an equinoctial storm to beat the calendar by a week or so (autumnal equinox: Sept. 22). Florida's last two bad ones (1926, 1928) came in September, also Porto Rico's (1928), Santo Domingo's (1930). Cuba's last serious hurricane struck in October...