Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Giddy Puerto Ricans last week leaped to the conclusion that the U. S. was about to go to war, that they would have to fight for a Motherland that many of them love none too well. Basis of these rumors was a braided assemblage at Governor Blanton Winship's palace, La Fortaleza, in San Juan. Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn arrived with a retinue of officers to look at Isla Grande, a 300-acre smudge in upper San Juan Harbor, to see whether it would be useful as a Caribbean naval and air base...
Admiral Hepburn's friendly words to the press and populace soon deflated the island's fear of an emergency involving Puerto Rico, but left them convinced that the base was as good as built, at an estimated expenditure of some $4,000,000. Hard fact was that the visitors could not make the decision if they wanted to. That will be up to the U. S. Navy's General Board, the Secretary of the Navy, and Congress. Having persuaded Congress that more bases are needed in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific, the navy is inspecting all available...
...class consists in winning full economic and political autonomy for Latin American nations. . . . Fascism is opposed to the objectives of the proletariat and must be combated in all its forms." The Congress asked a pardon for Tom Mooney, cabled exhortations of "courage" to Czechoslovak workers and demanded independence for Puerto Rico...
...Governor Blanton Winship of hot Puerto Rico had cards printed for tourists visiting his palace: "Gentlemen are requested to wear coats and neckties. Ladies are asked to wear skirts rather than shorts or slacks. Thank...
Having recovered from an appendectomy in Washington, Don José Tormos Diego, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, told reporters what he thought of the Nationalists who tried to assassinate Governor Blanton Winship in the mayor's home town (TIME, Aug. 1). "If I could speak the English by the books," he spluttered, "I would blow their nose, by damn...