Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more or less the same with all of us from that time on. The Government tried in every way-censorship, threats, violence-to prevent honest reporting. The United Press's Ed Thomas sent a short message that the rebels had captured Puerto Limon and was immediately visited by an angry little man who gave him twelve hours to leave the country. For sending a story that the rebels were winning (which they were), the Panama Star & Herald correspondent was jailed. He had to leave the country under protection of the Panamanian flag...
...week. The patrol leader was a former Ohio college student. He gave us some warm milk sweetened with sugar and sent us on to Figueres' headquarters. There I met a Louisiana State University graduate who was Figueres' best machine-gunner and, so help me, the red-bearded Puerto Limon garrison commander was a classmate of mine at the University of California. (All three, of course, were Costa Ricans.) California '42 and I celebrated with fresh coconut juice, remarking that you certainly meet the most unexpected people in insurrections." James A. Linen
...Irish (500,000) than Dublin, more Jews (2,000,000) than Palestine, almost as many Italians (1,095,000) as Rome. It has 412,000 Poles, 57,000 Czechs, 54,000 Norwegians, 53,000 Greeks. Half a million Negroes are jammed into New York, alongside almost a quarter-million Puerto Ricans. Mayor O'Dwyer can never be free of the fear of a bloody riot in Harlem. He has other enormous responsibilities. He is the commander of a sizable army-19,000 policemen, 11,000 firemen, 120,000 other municipal employees...
...years since, he has retraced their footsteps everywhere in the New World except in Puerto Rico; last week the press of duties forced him to cancel a tramp-steamship trip on which he planned to go there...
...hilltop command post overlooking Managua, he ordered a daily air patrol flown over the Gulf of Fonseca. He hustled supplies south to his National Guard patrols, who crossed the border and shot up a Costa Rican town. He cabled every Latin American republic that Nicaraguan exiles were meeting in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica, organizing an expedition to overthrow...