Word: rico
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of War Weeks has been much worried by the little island of Porto Rico. In countries like the United States and Great Britain politics is like a great river-occasional floods, but in general a continuous flow. In countries like the Balkans it is a series of cloudbursts. In Porto Rico it is a geyser-spurting periodically. The recent Governor of Porto Rico, E. Mont Reily, left office under criticism, if not because of it. His successor, Horace M. Towner, had hardly come within range of the Porto Rican geyser before he began to be spattered with mud. Politicians...
...Socialists, refusing to recognize those who demanded independence. The Unionists objected and delegations flowed into Washington protesting that the dominant party should control the entire Cabinet. When the trouble was at its height, Governor Reily came home on vacation and was injured in an accident. He returned to Porto Rico, but resigned a few months ago because of his health...
From San Diego he will sail for home, via the Panama Canal and Porto Rico, and should complete his trip by Aug. 20 or thereabouts...
...planned a speaking tour from coast to coast, a side trip to Alaska, then another speaking tour across the country in the reverse direction. This last part of the program was abandoned in favor of a return from the Pacific Coast by water-via the Panama Canal, Porto Rico and possibly the Virgin Islands. In high conclave at the White House (John T. Adams, Chairman of the Republican National Committee; Secretary Hoover; Postmaster General New; Senator Curtis; Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt; the President) the decision was made. The whole trip is still conditioned upon Mrs. Harding...
What was once the German ship Prince Eitel Friedrich, and is now the transport U. S. Grant, sailed out of New York Harbor for Porto Rico, the Panama Canal, San Francisco and Honolulu. Aboard were 19 Army officers and 980 troops destined for various posts. In addition, the passengers included Secretary of War Weeks, Mrs. Weeks and 27 Senators and Representatives, most of them with their wives, a few with their children. Each of the civilians will pay $2 a day for his food, just as Army officers do aboard transports. Otherwise, the trip will be free...