Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serve him as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Commissioner of Customs, Comptroller of the Currency, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, Director of the Mint, Director of the Budget, Director of Engraving & Printing, Governor General of the Philippines, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Director of the Census, Governor of Puerto Rico, Commissioner of Education, Director of the Bureau of Standards, Director of Prohibition, Commissioner of the Land Office, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, Commissioner General of Immigration, Civil Service Commissioners (3), Farm Loan Commissioners (6), Federal Trade Commissioners (5) and so on & on & on. In addition the President has the appointment...
...investigations which will be carried forward by Dr. Fassig, former chief of the climatological division of the United States Weather Bureau, concerns largely factors affecting tropical climate. A complication and analysis of ten years' observations of winds at various levels over San Juan, Puerto Rico, which may result in greater predictability of hurricanes and tropical storms, is one of the most important of Dr. Fassig's investigations...
When Governor James Rumsey Beverley advocated birth control to check the fast-growing population of Puerto Rico he stirred up a wasp's nest of indignation. But Puerto Ricans regard Nature's population-reducing visits with fatalistic equanimity. Every few years a hurricane kills a few hundred of them, destroys their homes and crops. They name the hurricane for the saint on whose day it occurred, then forget about it. When on the day of San Eusebio last week the sea became still under a windless sky, natives were suddenly reminded of the hours preceding the hurricane of San Felipe...
...usual the storm was quickly over. Spinning out of the Atlantic, it swiped at the Virgin Islands, killing 15 persons and leaving St. Thomas littered with wreckage. Then its full force struck Puerto Rico at the northeastern tip, moved across the northern part of the island and was gone to blow itself out against the mountains of Haiti. San Juan, the populous capital, was sharply ripped by the storm's 120-m. p. h. vortex. Lesser villages were torn from the hillsides. In all, 217 Puerto Ricans were killed, 2,219 injured, 75,000 left homeless. Next day Governor Beverley...
...prisoners left the jail, others- participants in the revolt-went in. Republican demonstrations were staged in Cordoba, Valencia, Santander, Barcelona. In Madrid the conservative papers A. B. C., Informaciones, El Debate and Nacion were suspended. Casualties of the revolt: 1,000 arrested, 90 wounded, ten killed, including one Nicanor Puerto who committed suicide. The Government promised General Sanjurjo would not be executed "unless the law left no alternative." Disloyal Civil Guards were stripped of their epaulets. President Alcala Zamora distributed 500,000 pesetas in rewards to the republic's heroes. In Konigswart, Czechoslovakia, onetime King Alfonso denied...