Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Hayes Gore was made Governor of Puerto Rico last July not because he was particularly informed on insular affairs but because he had loudly thumped for President Roosevelt's election in his string of Florida newspapers, had made it plain in Washington that he wanted an appointment in return. Though he had had no experience in public office, Puerto Ricans were ready to consider him "simpatico" because he was a Roman Catholic and had nine children. But ceremony-loving Puerto Ricans, accustomed to the tact and diplomacy of Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and the quiet efficiency of Governor...
...trouble began last August when Governor Gore was quoted as saying that all officials whom he might appoint would have to present undated resignations in advance (TIME, Aug. 28). This the Liberals considered an unprecedented insult to Puerto Rican dignity. Antonio R. Barcelo, politically ambitious president of the Liberal Party, promptly withdrew his list of suggested candidates, went into full opposition to the Gore regime. Governor Gore said he had never actually requested any undated resignations, accused Dr. Barcelo of circulating the story as a poli ical subterfuge. Dr. Barcelo's answer was an editorial in his La Democracia...
...Puerto Rico, reputedly at the instigation of Dr. Barcelo's Liberals, protested Governor Gore's appointment of Rafael Alonzo Torres, Socialist, to the University Board of Trustees. Student delegations twice called on the Governor, were twice refused admittance. Incensed, they presented the Governor with a Manual of Manners, then went on strike, demanding the removal of Socialist Torres...
...summer home, 50 mi. from San Juan, had been bombed shortly after he had left it. Next day another bomb, its fuse defective, was found in the garden of the Governor's mansion at San Juan. The Governor immediately ordered floodlights thrown around the mansion, asked Puerto Rican police to confiscate all guns and ammunitions stored at the University R. O. T. C. headquarters...
...Plough boy and Man Wants But Little. Among Haverford alumni: ''Tune Detective'' Sigmund Spaeth; Authors Christopher Morley and Logan Pearsall Smith; oldtime Basso David Bispham; Artist Maxtield Parrish; onetime Vice President Walter Morris Hart of the University of California; Commissioner of Education Jose Padin of Puerto Rico: President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania (Haverford ex-'93); Professor Henry Joel Cadbury of Bryn Mawr and Dr. Cecil Kent Drinker of Harvard Medical School. The last two and Author Morley were given honorary Litt. D. degrees at last week's celebration...