Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon thereafter went to war with Spain. Results of that 100-day conflict: 1) Cuba got its independence, 2) the U. S. paid Spain $20,000,000 as a fair price for the Philippines, 3) Spain handed over to the U. S. as an indemnity the Islands of Puerto Rico and Guam, 4) the Era of Manifest Destiny dawned as the U. S. launched its first important colonial program with foreign races...
Last week that program passed a historic milestone when Chairman Millard E. Tydings of the Senate Committee on Territories & Insular Affairs quietly rose on the Senate floor and announced: "Mr. President, I shall send to the desk shortly a bill proposing to give the people of Puerto Rico the option of becoming independent as a result of a national referendum. . . . The bill will be introduced with the support of the Administration...
Government of restrictions on tobacco production in Puerto Rico to match those being imposed by the states...
Born 56 years ago in Niantic, Conn., Colonel Ayres was raised in Boston, got his start teaching school in Puerto Rico, where he took up statistics on the side. Later he worked for the Russell Sage Foundation in the dual capacity of director of education and director of statistics. During the War he became the Army's first statistical officer, rising to the rank of colonel. In 1918 he went to France with Woodrow Wilson as statistical officer of the Peace Commission. He has no hobbies, little social life, is seldom seen outside his bank except when making speeches...
...result of a clever bit of sleuthing by Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Last month that Michigan Republican began to display an inordinate curiosity about AAA's big beneficiaries. Who, he asked, was the cotton grower who received $168,000, the hog-raiser who received $219,825, the Puerto Rican sugar producer who received $961,064? In the Senate he offered a resolution requiring the Department of Agriculture to furnish a complete list of those ''farmers" who had received $10,000 or more in AAA benefits...