Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opportunity in Puerto Rico...
...going to nominate Roosevelt for President, But, so strong was Massachusetts feeling for Smith, that Curley was not even elected to the delegation to the convention. Instead, he went to Chicago alone and there executed one of the shrewdest tricks in recent political history. He approached the delegation from Puerto Rico, talked them into giving him their standard, and sat as their leader when the roll call began. When the clerk got to Puerto rice, "Alcalde Jaime Miguel Culeo" delivered the Island's vote for Roosevelt. It was Curley, too, who led the landslide on the fourth roll call that...
...miracle required his moving from Manhattan to Puerto Rico, where Duffy's Tavern is now tape-recorded and flown to the U.S. Last week Gardner was living in a rented mansion in San Juan's exclusive King's Court, hard at work on such ambitious sidelines as a movie (Pigs' Feet in Paris) and filmed television shorts...
...call of the islands had been crooned by the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co., a local government agency interested in promoting new business. Under island law, Gardner has to pay neither U.S. income tax nor any Puerto Rican income, property or excise taxes on any of the movies or TV shows he produces. The Puerto Rican exemptions run until 1959 and, as long as he is resident in the islands, he appears to be safe from the U.S. tax collectors. Gardner resents the imputation that he is a tax dodger. "It's just a hell of a good business...
Though far from the comforting rumble of the Third Avenue "el," Gardner is not likely to become homesick. Under the new law, 50 U.S. companies (chinaware, leather goods, textiles) have already moved to Puerto Rico and more are expected by boat and plane...