Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democrat Al Smith beat him unmercifully in 1924. He lost the governorship by 109,000 votes, though Calvin Coolidge carried New York State by 870,000. From then on, Young Teddy never won an office. His two big political posts-Governor of Puerto Rico and Governor General of the Philippines-came to him by Presidential appointments. Later, the jest was that the Oyster Bay Roosevelts were out of season. He lived quietly in a $90,000 home he built in 1938 at Oyster Bay, served successively as board chairman of American Express and vice president of Doubleday, Doran...
From a dock at Mobile last week a score of bellowing Guernsey, Jersey and Hoistein heifers were swung aboard a ship, Puerto Rico-bound. They were the first tangible results of the most down-to-earth postwar plan devised by a U.S. church. The church was the Brethren (Dunkers*), most of whose 185,000 members are farmers. The project: raising heifers to send to postwar Europe to replace depleted stock, help feed hungry Europeans...
Meanwhile the Brethren are sending their cattle where they can. The committee chose Puerto Rico for the first shipment because there is a serious milk shortage on the island (40% of Puerto Ricans get no milk). The heifers, donated by farmer Brethren, are worth $200 to $300 apiece. The only cost to the Puerto Rican farmers who get them will be freight charges, totaling about...
...Puerto Rico's Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell, once (1938) chairman of the New York City Planning Commission. Tugwell specializes in "the kind of watercolor planning which consists of splashing green paint at a map and labeling the resulting blobs as 'open areas,' 'green belts,' 'breathing spaces...
...Express Edition is a real contribution to the thousands of English-reading people in Latin America," says Jefferson Caffery, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. "An indispensable link with the world beyond the horizon. It is impossible for one who does not live here to appreciate its importance" writes Puerto Rico's Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell. And Venezuelan Ambassador Diogenes Escalante calls TIME "the most efficient help to the cause of mutual understanding between the peoples of this continent...