Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cruiser & Transport Force whose convoys transported 2,511,047 soldiers across the Atlantic without a single loss; of pneumonia; in Philadelphia. He commanded the Mayflower, later the Presidential yacht on its 1903 geodetic survey cruise which charted the Atlantic's deepest hole (27,984 ft.) off Puerto Rico, supervised construction of the first U. S. torpedo factory at Newport, initiated ship refuelling...
...gone AAA's director of the North Central Division to a packing firm, its assistant Southern director to a big cotton ranch, the head of its sugar section to the Sugar Institute. Gone after his chief was one of Rexford Tugwell's economists, to represent the Puerto Rico Sugar Producers. Said to be going are Madam Secretary Perkins' brilliant statistician, Isador Lubin. RFC's General Counsel James Alley and Solicitor Max Truitt. Tempted with flattering offers have.been the Department of Justice's able Robert Jackson, TVA's General Solicitor James L. Fly, practically...
Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, present by proxies from Alaska and Puerto Rico, won himself no welcome by gloating: "I carried Roosevelt's own district for Landon and myself by 24,000- and that's more than the rest of you can say." Long famed as a Red-baiter, Congressman Fish has stepped out since Nov. 3 as a would-be liberalizer of the GOP. Last week his target was National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, who had called the Committee's first post election meeting to act on his offer to resign...
...favorite pastime among pirates of the Spanish Main was to set men adrift in small boats or maroon them on desert islands. Caja de Muertos (Coffin) Island, a few miles off the southern shore of Puerto Rico, is supposed to be the original of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, on which, as every schoolboy knows, pirates marooned Ben Gunn. Last week, out of the ocean near Coffin Island came reports of an amazing revival of such piratical practice...
Last week in Puerto Rico eligible voters had to be at their polling places by high noon. Precisely at that hour doors were closed against late comers and voting began. As their votes were recorded, voters were allowed to slip out quietly one by one. When the last Puerto Rican left his polling place the election was all over but the counting. When the counting was all over it was revealed that white-thatched old Santiago Iglesias, the Samuel Gompers of his island, had been re-elected Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner in Washington over Dr. José Lopez...