Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hawaii and Puerto Rico, although voteless, have long contended that they are entitled to equal consideration with Louisiana, Michigan, Colorado or any other State. Delegates from Honolulu are forever pointing out that Hawaii pays more income tax than any of 16 States. But last week U. S. citizens in those islands feared that the House of Representatives regarded them as mere colonies. Whereas New York or Georgia might refine all the sugar they could get their hands on, the House restricted Hawaiian refiners to 3%, Puerto Rico refiners to 16% of their own sugar which they produce for consumption...
Lobbyists also clashed with Agriculture's Henry Wallace, but biggest obstacle they had to hurdle was the White House. Franklin Roosevelt simply stated that he would veto the Sugar Bill unless Congress lopped off discriminations against Hawaii and Puerto Rico, allowed them also unrestricted refining. When the Bill reached the floor of the House, Congressman Marvin Jones, Agriculture chairman and father of the Bill, introduced a courtesy amendment to right these discriminations, but he fooled no one. Said McCormack of Massachusetts: "[Mr. Jones] is a good soldier, but he talks with his tongue in his cheek." The amendment lost...
...population of 1,500,000,000 it would still be less jam-packed than little Puerto Rico...
Against the U. S.'s 42.8 humans per square mile, Puerto Rico had 501.6 in 1935, up 176.1% in 25 years and soaring steadily. The New Deal has spent millions on the Island's economic rehabilitation, but students have long been convinced that the one basic remedy for the Islanders' appalling poverty is to cut their appalling birthrate. Every move to legalize dissemination of birth control information, however, has been stopped dead by Roman Catholic clergy...
...Division of Territories & Island Possessions, thought he had struck a truce with San Juan's Bishop Edwin Vincent Byrne, opened up 15 birth control stations. The Bishop's roars soon drove him to cover. Last week Bishop Byrne was roaring again because both houses of Puerto Rico's Legislature had just passed a bill permitting physicians to tell their patients about birth control. Governor Blanton Winship's predecessor, Catholic Robert H. Gore, began his term by announcing that he trusted in God to control population. Governor Winship, late of the Army's Judge Advocate General...