Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francis Michael Shea for Samuel Estill Whitaker in the Claims Division. Out of Dartmouth and Harvard Law School (1928), Mr. Shea worked on AAA, SEC and Puerto Rican Reconstruction before becoming, in 1936, Buffalo Law School's prodigy dean. His special study is bankruptcies & receiverships, at which lawyers rate him far above his predecessor, the mayor of Riverview, Tenn...
...Besides signing a D. S. M. award for Admiral Yarnell last week, the President held a surprise party in his office, pinned a D. S. M. (voted by Congress) on Admiral William Daniel Leahy, retiring this week as Chief of Operations to become Governor of Puerto Rico...
...President offhandedly announced that the Navy's highest officer, Chief of Operations William Daniel Leahy, who is to retire soon, will replace Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico. "Winship's dismissal," Utah's Senator King called it. "Winship kicked out!" yelled newsboys in San Juan. Sixty-nine-year-old Governor Winship for a year has talked of quitting to live on his Major General's pension. Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes. Said Blanton Winship last week to the 1,700,000 Puerto Ricans whom he has ruled for five years...
...booming new aspect of national defense prompted Franklin Roosevelt in this appointment. Puerto Rico is to become to the Caribbean defense area what the Navy's strongly fortified Pearl Harbor in Hawaii is to the Pacific: the Navy is installing a $9,300,000 submarine and air base there; the Army planning to spend some $20,000,000 on air bases, antiaircraft, garrisons...
...Exempt Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands from the arbitrary wage minima prescribed for the U. S. and let committees familiar with island industries figure out how to raise wages without ruining island industries now accustomed to living in an economy with a much lower scale of prices...