Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Juan, Puerto Rico, a Judge declared a recess so that court attendants could watch a Scoreboard from the balcony. In Detroit, Mrs. Babe Ruth wore a corsage of orchids sent to her by one of her husband's teammates while her husband sat in the press-box in front of the reporter who was ghostwriting his story...
...thousands of Catholics and scores of bishops and archbishops will join in a variety of pious acts centering around the great theme of the Eucharist. Of all the cities in which such congresses have been held, only London and Chicago are larger than Nuestra Ciudad de la Santisima Trinidad, Puerto de Buenos Aires-Our City of the Most Holy Trinity, Port of Good Airs. And the faithful who will throng the city represent the Pope's largest flock-Latin Americans who comprise one-third of the world's 300,000,000 Catholics. Thus the Vatican was happy...
...last week Professor Roscoe Raymond Hyde of Johns Hopkins heard that Puerto Rico is suffering from an epidemic of influenza (10,000 cases; no deaths). Next day he heard that the region around Hagerstown, Md. also is suffering from an epidemic of influenza (1,000 cases; no deaths). Those epidemics Professor Hyde feared might denote the beginning of a pandemic such as devastated the U. S. in 1918. Immediately he sent for a dozen ferrets on which to test the virulency of the germs which were causing the Hagerstown trouble. When Professor Hyde expresses fear, wise men take heed...
...months ago President Roosevelt bunched the Washington government of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands all under a new Division of Territories & Island Possessions in the Department of Interior. Last week he found a man to run the lot along New Deal lines. The man was Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening...
That drizzly August noon was not such a day for a homecoming as the President had had a month earlier when he drove through the green fields of Maryland to Annapolis to board his ship for a vacation in Haiti, Puerto Rico, Colombia, the Canal Zone and Hawaii. When he departed he needed rest?and he got it. He hoped that, with the spotlight turned off Washington, the country would get a rest, too. But when he landed in Portland last week and was met by an anxious conclave including two members of his Cabinet and two of his White...