Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having been born in Puerto Rico and lived there all my life except for the period of my education in the U.S. I think I am qualified to refute your reporter's sweeping, malicious description...
There are no jungles in Puerto Rico, unfortunately. The Federal Government has been spending thousands of dollars trying to reforest the island. One of the few virgin forests has been made a national reservation to preserve...
...ridden, slum-ridden"-a very nice little jingle indeedbut not original. Why pick on slums as a particular characteristic of Puerto Rico when the whole world is "ridden" with them, and even the wealthiest country on this earth...
...feel, with nearly two million native Puerto Rican American citizens, that you owe us an apology. As a subscriber of many years' standing I am surprised and ashamed to see my favorite periodical gratuitously insult our people and falsify the facts in so brazen a manner; to wit: there are no jungles in Puerto Rico; as to swamps, there are some few hundred acres which are yearly being eliminated by reclamation. Surely we have slums in Borinquén bella, but absolutely not in the proportion your article insinuates. As to rum, let me inform you that more than...
Poverty-struck and overpopulated Puerto Rico, stepchild among U.S. territories, was chosen as the first backyard for experimental freedom. Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell proposed that Puerto Ricans be given the right to elect their own governor. Franklin Roosevelt quickly stepped up to announce that he liked the idea. If Congress changes the Organic Act of 1917, self-government will go into effect in Puerto Rico in 1944 or as soon thereafter as the war ends...