Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without waiting for a recount of University of Puerto Rico's students, who had demanded that he choose between the chancellorship of their university and the Governorship of their island, Rexford Guy Tugwell resigned the $15,000 chancellorship, was sworn into the $10,000 Governorship...
...Puerto Ricans (Jesus Figueroa and Efrain Garcia Angulo) dedicated a waltz, Dreaming Puerto Rico, to the U.S. Army and Navy. Its refrain (English words by Sr. Garcia Angulo...
...Puerto Rico! . . . Puerto Rico...
...Governor's retreat in Puerto Rico's mountains, Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell last week pondered whether to be or not to be Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico. On the university's palmy campus, its hot-tempered students got into a stew over the same question...
When the university's trustees, prompted by Puerto Rico's political leader, Senate President Luis Muñoz Marin, invited Tugwell to be their chancellor (TIME, Aug. 4), hoisting the salary to $15,000 to make the job attractive, everybody seemed happy. Trouble started when President Roosevelt also appointed Tugwell the island's Governor. Tugwell indicated he would take a leave from the chancellorship and let a subordinate run the university until another Governor was found to relieve him. But the students wanted no pinch hitter as chancellor...