Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ramrod-straight, Major General Blanton Winship, U. S. A. retired, marched up the gangplank of the steamer Coamo in Manhattan last week, quietly retired to his cabin to settle himself for the four-day voyage to Puerto Rico. There he was to take over the job of Governor which had proved too politically hot for Robert Hayes Gore (TIME, Jan. 22). The one-time Judge Advocate General of the Army smilingly told newshawks that he had nothing to say about his new post. But a fellow-passenger, who had also just landed a big Puerto Rican job, said plenty...
Pausing occasionally to shake the snow out of her bobbed black locks, Mrs. Jean Springstead Whittemore of Matfield Green, Kans., vivacious Democratic Committeewoman from Puerto Rico and for ten years head of the English Department of Puerto Rico University, fairly crowed over her appointment as collector of customs at San Juan. She made no secret of the fact that she had put the political screws to Postmaster General Farley in an unsuccessful attempt to get the governorship for herself...
...star under which Robert Hayes Gore flew down to Puerto Rico last year was an evil one. Fifteen years with small-town Scripps-Howard papers, an excursion into the mail order insurance business, and, finally, the proprietorship of a chain of Florida papers which he opportunely flung on the Roosevelt bandwagon had failed to endow blunt, bald Mr. Gore with the tact and resource required of peppery Puerto Rico's Governor...
...putting a legal face on an open practice. His proposals that landed estates be subdivided into small farms, that the legal interest rate be reduced from 12% to 8% infuriated the island's monied classes. The students rebelled when he appointed an unschooled trustee to the University of Puerto Rico's board. The politicos rebelled when he asked appointees for undated resignations in advance. Having fallen into every political pitfall the Legislative opposition set for him, blundering Governor Gore suffered more when his house was twice bombed three months ago. Shortly thereafter he departed Puerto Rico on sick...
...velvet and velveteen industry. These were succeeded by a torrent of communications from such organizations as the Rotary Club of Indianola, Iowa (for increased monetization of silver and extension of agricultural markets by use of War Debts), the Alaska Native Brotherhood (protesting relief discrimination), the Bakers' Association of Puerto Rico (praying for the non-application of the flour processing tax), the Holy Name Society at Saginaw, Mich, (asking closer supervision of movies). The volume of these communications was prodigious, but not so prodigious as the cloudburst of bills released by the Senators themselves- mostly individual relief and pension measures...