Word: rican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF PUERTO RICO, ELECTED BY UNIVERSAL MALE AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE ONE YEAR AGO, HAVE TODAY APPROVED A RESOLUTION, WITH VOTES NOT ONLY OF MAJORITY PARTY BUT OF ALL PARTIES REPRESENTED IN THE LEGISLATURE, VIGOROUSLY REPUDIATING THE ATTACK BY PUERTO RICAN RESIDENT COMMISSIONER BOLIVAR PAGAN AGAINST GOVERNOR TUGWELL AS FALSE IN ITS IRRESPONSIBLE ALLEGATIONS AND AS PROVIDING, UNLESS REPUDIATED BY THE PEOPLE AND THE LEGISLATURE, A BASIS FOR NAZI PROPAGANDA IN LATIN AMERICA WHICH IS ALREADY BEING USED BY THE BERLIN RADIO...
...Harlem side streets and the hilly, wooded section of Central Park next to Harlem, bands of Negro and Puerto Rican boys prey on playing children, robbing them of bicycles, skates, wrist watches, clothes. When they rob a man, they often take his pants to forestall a chase...
From Penang, Isthmian's Ensley City was headed for seething and steaming Dutch East Indies ports. The Puerto Rican, out of Balik Papan, was homeward bound, her crew hopeful of reaching Boston...
Ground forces then on the island were hardly worth hiding: a few Regular Army battalions of engineers, artillerymen, coast artillerymen (antiaircraft) sent over from the continental U.S., plus some 14,000 Puerto Rican recruits who had been taken into expanded Regular Army units, or into two Puerto Rican National Guard regiments. All the Puerto Ricans were volunteers. To miserable, jobless and underpaid natives from San Juan's hellish slums, or from the poverty-ridden countryside, the Army's $21 a month looked like a fortune. These unfortunates, underfed, underbred, did the best they could in U.S. uniforms. They...
...Army. "Pershing men" who survived service with him in the Philippines, on the Texas border, in World War I, have shared largely in recent promotions, have many a key staff or command assignment. One of them is Major General James L. Collins, the new commander of the Puerto Rican Department (see p. 20). Another: General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff. But so far, officers of the new U.S. Army have not been subjected to the rigorous Pershing standards of World...