Word: rican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little greyer, considerably heavier and hopefully wiser after five years on the job, Rexford Guy Tugwell left the turbulent Puerto Rican governorship last September and retired to the peace & quiet of Chicago. As professor of political science at the University of Chicago he no longer had 2,000,000 citizens in his domain nor a 70 ft. by 30 ft. gubernatorial bedroom at his disposal. But he had time at last to review his Puerto Rican record and his relations with Franklin Roosevelt, who sent him there...
...ward surgeons finally discovered her trouble it was too late. She died without knowing that a .22 caliber bullet, fired by boys playing on a housetop, had gone through her back and into her stomach. ¶At four in the morning, Hector A. Orta, a small, brown-faced Puerto Rican, walked into a Times Square subway station. There were only a dozen people in the echoing cavern, but one of them-a huge, slack-faced man-was drunk. As he reeled and mumbled, the rest watched him nervously. Suddenly they shrank back against the shiny, tile walls; the drunken...
Until last week Puerto Ricans felt no urge to celebrate the anniversary (July 25) of the landing of U.S. troops on their island in 1898. Then Harry Truman gave them reason. On that day he chose a native Puerto Rican as their governor, the first to hold the post. He was burly 49-year-old Jesús Toribio Piñero, since 1944 Puerto Rico's elected Resident Commissioner in Washington...
...President of Costa Rica has been a fascist, nor could any Chief Executive of my country ever sympathize with the totalitarian nations, because every one of Costa Rica's statesmen is educated in the school of traditional Costa Rican democracy...
...reluctance to believe that Saul has become Paul, but such timely changes have won some friends among old critics of United Fruit. In Costa Rica, where United Fruit donated land for labor colonies, Communist-controlled unions named one of the settlements "Colonia Hamer," after the company's Costa Rican manager. Judicious wage increases have also spared United Fruit some labor headaches, but they may not save it from the projected new labor code's provisions for social security, hospitalization at company expense, and overtime pay, which are expected to cost the company a million dollars a year...