Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President offhandedly announced that the Navy's highest officer, Chief of Operations William Daniel Leahy, who is to retire soon, will replace Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico. "Winship's dismissal," Utah's Senator King called it. "Winship kicked out!" yelled newsboys in San Juan. Sixty-nine-year-old Governor Winship for a year has talked of quitting to live on his Major General's pension. Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes. Said Blanton Winship last week to the 1,700,000 Puerto Ricans whom he has ruled for five years...
...booming new aspect of national defense prompted Franklin Roosevelt in this appointment. Puerto Rico is to become to the Caribbean defense area what the Navy's strongly fortified Pearl Harbor in Hawaii is to the Pacific: the Navy is installing a $9,300,000 submarine and air base there; the Army planning to spend some $20,000,000 on air bases, antiaircraft, garrisons...
...Exempt Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands from the arbitrary wage minima prescribed for the U. S. and let committees familiar with island industries figure out how to raise wages without ruining island industries now accustomed to living in an economy with a much lower scale of prices...
...ocean. Gist of his report: the game had failed to demonstrate conclusively whether a foreign fleet could penetrate the U. S. first line of defense and gain a military foothold in the Western Hemisphere, but had proved that the Navy needs added bases in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Piquant detail of the game: a defense patrol plane, from an altitude of 15,000 ft., far at sea, and undetected even by the umpires, spied for 30 hours and reported by radio on the approaching "enemy" warships...
...eastern boundary to Norfolk, Va. Or they might seek to break through one of the many entrances to the Caribbean and attack the Panama Canal. Belief that the attackers' air forces, at least, had broken through the defense cordon grew when 150 to 175 planes swarmed over Puerto Rico. One plane crashed mysteriously into the sea off St. Kitts (British...