Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Republican vice-presidential racers spurted gently last week. Governor Theodore Roosevelt, flying back to his post in Porto Rico, stopped in Raleigh, N. C. long enough to confide to newsmen: "I expect Secretary of War Hurley to be the next Republican vice-presidential nominee...
...Professor Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, famed international economist. To the McVickar Professorship was last week appointed Dr. Robert Murray Haig, 44, professor of business administration at Columbia since 1916. Like his venerable predecessor, he is a tax-expert, an adviser to governments and states. The Federal Government, Canada, Porto Rico, New Mexico, have sought his aid. New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Dr. Haig chairman of his pet project, the St. Lawrence Power Development Commission, made him executive secretary and research director of the New York State Commission for the Revision of Tax Laws...
...states and countries to which this reciprocity applies are Arizona, California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawall, Manitoba, Maryland, Nebraska, New York, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Porto Rico, Vermont...
...James M. Porter of Congress was made president of Porto Rican, President William E. Waterman of Waitt & Bond was made chairman of Porto Rican-a new office. Porto Rican makes Ricoro, La Restina, Portina, El Toro and other cigars, also El Toro Cigarets which are mostly sold in Porto Rico. Congress makes La Palina Cigars; Waitt & Bond makes Blackstones...
...fifty bands and drum corps spurred on a four-mile parade which took nine hours to pass the reviewing stand. Some 40,000 people paid $3 each to watch the parade from a specially constructed grandstand. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. came all the way from his governorship in Porto Rico to stride by waving his hat and exhibiting a big-toothed grin somewhat like his father's. In sidetracked Pullmans at Windsor. Legionaries were pictured leaning out of windows with bottles of foaming brew in their hands and pointing to what they had scrawled along the car's side...