Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virus of violence filtered into the peaceful island of Puerto Rico one October day less than two years...
...loser, Enrico Venturi of Italy, was an unshakable courage that enabled him to rise after a knockdown in the seventh round, win the tenth and twelfth, finish the fight on his feet after another knockdown in the 18th. The winner was Pedro Montanez, nicknamed Don Diablo (Sir Devil), of Puerto Rico. He had exhibited the agility of a hellion dancing on hot coals, a punch as persuasive as a red-hot pitchfork. The fight with Venturi was his 23rd professional appearance in the U. S., his 23rd victory. Almost inevitably it will be rewarded by a chance...
...with Spain. A year later when McKinley was running for reelection, it was suggested that Root run for Vice President to succeed Garret A. Hobart who had died in office. Root refused because he was in the midst of his job of giving new governments to Puerto Rico and the Philippines, of reorganizing the War Department on its modern basis with a General Staff. Of this work Root remarked: "I made the Army my client." If Root had been a candidate, Theodore Roosevelt might not have become President when McKinley was shot, and Theodore Roosevelt's distant cousin might...
...Cruiser & Transport Force whose convoys transported 2,511,047 soldiers across the Atlantic without a single loss; of pneumonia; in Philadelphia. He commanded the Mayflower, later the Presidential yacht on its 1903 geodetic survey cruise which charted the Atlantic's deepest hole (27,984 ft.) off Puerto Rico, supervised construction of the first U. S. torpedo factory at Newport, initiated ship refuelling...
Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, present by proxies from Alaska and Puerto Rico, won himself no welcome by gloating: "I carried Roosevelt's own district for Landon and myself by 24,000- and that's more than the rest of you can say." Long famed as a Red-baiter, Congressman Fish has stepped out since Nov. 3 as a would-be liberalizer of the GOP. Last week his target was National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, who had called the Committee's first post election meeting to act on his offer to resign...