Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Professor Roscoe Raymond Hyde of Johns Hopkins heard that Puerto Rico is suffering from an epidemic of influenza (10,000 cases; no deaths). Next day he heard that the region around Hagerstown, Md. also is suffering from an epidemic of influenza (1,000 cases; no deaths). Those epidemics Professor Hyde feared might denote the beginning of a pandemic such as devastated the U. S. in 1918. Immediately he sent for a dozen ferrets on which to test the virulency of the germs which were causing the Hagerstown trouble. When Professor Hyde expresses fear, wise men take heed...
...months ago President Roosevelt bunched the Washington government of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands all under a new Division of Territories & Island Possessions in the Department of Interior. Last week he found a man to run the lot along New Deal lines. The man was Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening...
...ethnological history of Puerto Rico is identical with that of any of our Southern States, including my own State of Texas: invasion and settlement by Europeans?and Spain sent her best blood to the New World; practical extermination of the aboriginal inhabitants; importation of African slaves for agricultural labor; subsequent liberation of these slaves and the gradual appearance of more or less mixed blood. The only difference I see in Puerto Rico is that, since the process has on the whole been going on for a couple of hundred years more than in the continental U. S., the proportion...
That drizzly August noon was not such a day for a homecoming as the President had had a month earlier when he drove through the green fields of Maryland to Annapolis to board his ship for a vacation in Haiti, Puerto Rico, Colombia, the Canal Zone and Hawaii. When he departed he needed rest?and he got it. He hoped that, with the spotlight turned off Washington, the country would get a rest, too. But when he landed in Portland last week and was met by an anxious conclave including two members of his Cabinet and two of his White...
Though numerous attempts were made on his life Rico survived them all. His narrowest escape was when for a while he turned vegetarian, became cowlike and contented. Lured in time's nick from this pitiable state by a fat, juicy steak, he "saw the world again as it is, not as it should be," called out the firing squad to execute a fresh batch of enemies. At the height of his power Dictator Rico mysteriously disappeared, leaving his country once more a prey to real life...