Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than 100 Congressmen and some 30 Senators went abroad, trailed by almost double that many clerks, aides, wives & children. One group of four went on going right around the world. While most went to Europe, there were also expeditions to the Far East, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, South and Central America. And five other lawmakers were going to Mexico-to study foot & mouth disease...
...along Harlem's East 108th Street have changed little since Gambler Frank Costello was a boy. The towers of the Triborough Bridge now float in the sky just beyond their chimneys, and a snare-drum roll of traffic drifts up from the modern East River Drive. Negroes and Puerto Ricans choke the slums to west and north. But the old neighborhood is still Italian. Its sidewalk garbage cans (each with its cover chained to prevent theft), its great, voracious rats, its smells, its endless noise, are the same...
...defeat for the Communists and their political stooge, the American Labor Party. The A.L.P. elected nobody. Congressman Vito Marcantonio, A.L.P. candidate for mayor who had boasted that he would win with more than 800,000 votes, got only 356,000, carrying only two districts in the East Harlem and Puerto Rican sections of the city...
...Archie") Gardner of radio fame, and his move to Puerto Rico because "it's a hell of a good business opportunity" [TIME, Oct. 10]. Respectfully suggest that he and others of his type be permitted to do this and make it permanent . . . EDWARD L. WOLFF Montpelier...
...position toward its possessions is that of a parent with lusty, growing children, who must be supported until they become self-sustaining. For the past half-century Puerto Rico has been a costly child, its upkeep running into millions annually ... To reduce this drain on U.S. resources, Congress has tried to encourage American industry and investment in the island through tax exemptions and other inducements . . . GEORGE R. MERCADER Beverly Hills, Calif...