Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After silver-haired, handsome Rexford Guy Tugwell took office in Puerto Rico last September as Governor, little was heard of him until last week, when from that much-experimented-on island came roars and rumors of roars...
...White House went an angry cable from leaders of Puerto Rico's Coalition Party, begging President Roosevelt to take Rex Tugwell away. In Washington, slick-haired, solemn Bolivar Pagan, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, passionately denounced Rex Tugwell as "an American quisling." Said Commissioner Pagan: "He is doing everything so that loyal American citizens in Puerto Rico become sore and disunited. . . . Governor Tugwell is doing a good job for the Axis powers...
Brain-Truster Tugwell, tarnished glamor boy of the New Deal, had a chance in Puerto Rico to make a political comeback. Thanks largely to the good offices of bearish, sad-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin, President of Puerto Rico's Senate, he seemed to be making...
...Ordered the registration of all enemy aliens 14 years of age or over in the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands...
Represented by the largest numbers of students are Canada with 51, China 41, Germany 41, England 22, Hawaii 21, Czechoslovakia 13, France 12, Australia 11, Peru 10, Puerto Rico 10 and Argentina...