Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fraudulent Stavisky bonds. But the fortune in jewels, which Stavisky gave to his wife, Arlette, an ex-mannequin and dancer, was still untraced. The former Arlette Stavisky, her terpsichorean tittups long forgotten, recently settled down with her husband, a U.S. Army captain, to a tranquil life in Puerto Rico...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, on his official Latin American tour (the Caribbean and Brazil), dropped in on sunny Puerto Rico with Mrs. Ike for a look around. They had to wait a few minutes...
...regions of deficiency diseases. It has also led him to major medical discoveries. Last week in Science he announced a new one with a report that folic acid, part of the vitamin B complex, was a remedy for tropical sprue, a widespread disease in such teeming, undernourished lands as Puerto Rico...
...aware of the anniversary, Harry Truman did not mention it. But he had plenty of good reasons for his choice. U.S.-trained (University of Pennsylvania), Jesús Piñero had been an able spokesman of Puerto Rico's problems. He was a popular man at home. He was a close friend of the island's most powerful politician, Luis Muñoz Marin; with him Piñero had founded the now dominant Popular Democratic Party in 1938. The Insular Legislature had recommended his appointment...
...Governor Francis Murphy. From party politicos to the White House went protests about Luis Muñoz Marin's bossism. Harry Truman stood firm; he wanted a native, and Interior Secretary Julius Krug agreed that Sugar Farmer Piñero should be the man. So did most Puerto Ricans...