Word: rican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marin would be a remarkable figure in any country. In Puerto Rico of 1941 he is unique. Son of a Puerto Rican hero, he spent most of his life in the U. S., learned English on New York City streets. He also acquired a sardonic, down-to-earth way of looking at things. Consequently he became the rarest type of reformer, coupling a taxi driver's view of human nature with his idealism. Muñoz Marin studied at Georgetown University, wrote for the Baltimore Sun, The Nation and Henry Louis Mencken's old Smart Set magazine, sold...
...several hours. Next morning the San Jose Tribuna printed a scathing editorial, hinted some might have been saved if TACA had reported the missing plane sooner. To make matters worse, TACA's dapper lawyer, Jean La Baron, who constantly puffs on long, thin cigars, was quoted by Costa Rican newsmen as saying: "American Export Airlines has the sympathy and backing of the U. S. Department of State . . . [which] will oppose any effort of Pan American to compete with TACA, now an American company." Costa Rican newspapers began beating drums. Was it up to Washington...
Sugar. Producers of corn, cotton, wheat, rice, tobacco legally may not receive more than $10,000 a year in benefit payments. Sugar is a special case. Annually 130 Hawaiian and Puerto Rican sugar producers get more than $10,000 in benefits; 31 of them get payments ranging individually from $102,927 to $665,211 a year. Only three U. S. producers get such big subsidies: U. S. Sugar Corp., Clewiston, Fla. got $430,420 in 1937, last year about the same...
...Byrd, citing this situation, took a vicious cut at the sugar lobby, moved to apply the general $10,000 limit to sugar producers. Crushed, 46-23, he tried for a $50,000 limit, was crushed again, 37-27. Only argument for the huge subsidies was fuzzy : that Hawaiian & Puerto Rican producers, stripped of their fat subsidies, might get miffed, abandon the control program, ruin small domestic producers; i.e., that benefits must be paid foreign producers to persuade them to let U. S. producers exist. No one could understand this; but the Senate has always understood the sugar lobby...
Most extraordinary thing about Conchita is the fact that she is an American. Born in Chile and reared in Peru, she is the daughter of a onetime U. S. Army officer named Francisco Cintron (a Puerto Rican) and granddaughter (on her mother's side) of U. S. Archeologist A. Hyatt Verrill, descendant of a long line of highbrow, blue-blooded New Englanders...