Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble began last August when Governor Gore was quoted as saying that all officials whom he might appoint would have to present undated resignations in advance (TIME, Aug. 28). This the Liberals considered an unprecedented insult to Puerto Rican dignity. Antonio R. Barcelo, politically ambitious president of the Liberal Party, promptly withdrew his list of suggested candidates, went into full opposition to the Gore regime. Governor Gore said he had never actually requested any undated resignations, accused Dr. Barcelo of circulating the story as a poli ical subterfuge. Dr. Barcelo's answer was an editorial in his La Democracia...
Last April when President Roosevelt appointed Robert Hayes Gore to be Governor of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican politicos did their best to find out who he was. Unlike their then Governor ,Republican James Rumsey Beverley, he had never lived in Puerto Rico. Unlike young Theodore Roosevelt who had preceded Governor Beverley, he had no great name. All they could discover was that he came from Florida, had nine children. They were pleased with the nine children because that meant that he could sympathize with the Puerto Rican love of big families. They were also pleased to find that...
...brief years of Calvin Coolidge's presidency, Mr. Behn's International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., starting as an obscure Puerto-Rican adventure, had acquired most of the telephone business of South America, had obtained a complete monopoly in Spain from His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII, had rebuilt the telephones of Paris and Shanghai, had obtained the backing of J. P. Morgan & Co. With the acquisition of Mackay-Postal it became the second largest communication company in the world.* Last week Mr. Behn became a director of L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co., potent Swedish manufacturers of electrical equipment...
...Purto Rican...
...wanted to join his invalid wife in Paris and "get a little rest." Sixty minutes after his resignation President Hoover, as everyone expected, nominated Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico to be Governor General of the Philippines. In Washington, Col. Roosevelt declared he was "very deeply grateful." Most Porto Rican politicos felt the same...