Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rico, BANDIT AND DICTATOR-Antonio de Fierro Blanco-Honghton Mifflin...
...romantic but unsentimental Latin, has always admired the type. His idealized portrait of an imaginary dictator will not please U. S. readers so much as his Journey of the Flame (TIME, Nov. 6), but they will lend a friendlier ear than they would have a few years ago to Rico, Bandit and Dictator...
...exiled Austrian archduke and an Indian woman, Rico grew up in the jungles of a nameless Spanish-American country, turned bandit in his youth and became dictator in his manhood. A frank realist, he never hesitated to kill when it was necessary. He was pleased that the people said of him: "He is a man of business." His principle: "If in doubt, kill! Nor fear that you waste aught of value." His aim was to govern well; when he found that modernization went against the country's grain he benevolently preserved the status quo. He permitted the kind...
...about 1,000,000 tons. They were still more chagrined when Congress, after upping the quota of mainland beet-sugar producers 100,000 tons above the President's request, left the quota for Hawaii to be fixed by Undersecretary of Agriculture Tugwell. In proportioning quotas between Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Philippines, Brain Truster Tugwell used the average crops of 1931-32-33 as figures for the other islands, but based Hawaii's quota on the years 1930-31-32, to Hawaii's disadvantage. Result: Hawaii's quota was set at 917,000 tons instead...
Every white, brown or yellow resident who hopes the New Deal will deal the islands four aces instead of a bobtail flush repeats those words. Hawaii is not a possession of the U. S., like Puerto Rico or the Philippines, but a territory like Alaska. Unlike Puerto Rico, which keeps all for itself, it pays into the Federal treasury income taxes, internal revenue taxes, customs' duties, has sent an average of $5,000,000 a year to Washington for each of the last 34 years. Its tax contribution is bigger than that of any one of 17 full-fledged states...