Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Hayes Gore was made Governor of Puerto Rico last July not because he was particularly informed on insular affairs but because he had loudly thumped for President Roosevelt's election in his string of Florida newspapers, had made it plain in Washington that he wanted an appointment in return. Though he had had no experience in public office, Puerto Ricans were ready to consider him "simpatico" because he was a Roman Catholic and had nine children. But ceremony-loving Puerto Ricans, accustomed to the tact and diplomacy of Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and the quiet efficiency of Governor...
...world-webbing International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s famed Brothers Behn; of alimentary disorders; in his villa at St. Jean-de-Luz, France. Born in the Virgin Islands of French-Danish-English-Dutch ancestry, educated in Corsica and Paris, he and his brother Sosthenes, growing sugar in Puerto Rico, took over the island's decrepit, 250-subscriber telephone system, put it shipshape, combined it with the Cuban system a few years later. In 1920, after a deal with A. T. & T. had enabled them to lay a cable from Cuba to Key West, they formed I. T. & T. When...
...Wants But Little. Among Haverford alumni: ''Tune Detective'' Sigmund Spaeth; Authors Christopher Morley and Logan Pearsall Smith; oldtime Basso David Bispham; Artist Maxtield Parrish; onetime Vice President Walter Morris Hart of the University of California; Commissioner of Education Jose Padin of Puerto Rico: President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania (Haverford ex-'93); Professor Henry Joel Cadbury of Bryn Mawr and Dr. Cecil Kent Drinker of Harvard Medical School. The last two and Author Morley were given honorary Litt. D. degrees at last week's celebration...
...that time. Drivers from certain states may receive a free permit merely for applying because the driver's licenses in those states have the same requirements as Massachusetts. These are California, Connecticut, Delaware, D. C., Hawaii, Manitoba, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia. Drivers from other states must have local license...
...Cespedes. Under no illusions last week as to who could make or break him, small Senor de Cespedes publicly embraced tall Ambassador Welles, lauded him in repeated public eulogies. What Cuba fears is that the U.S. beet sugar producers and the cane sugar men from Florida, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines may succeed in their present drive at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to have U.S. imports of Cuban sugar reduced by a drastic quota to 1,700,000 short tons per annum-less than Cuba has exported to the U.S. in any year during the past generation...