Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most meritorious. They should be withheld until the country is in better condition."* ¶ Rain and cold greeted President Hoover when he arrived at his Rapidan camp for the weekend. Most of his time was spent sitting around a roaring log fire talking to Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico-possibly, guessed the Press, about Governor Roosevelt's being sent to the Philippines to relieve Dwight Filley Davis...
Most of the recent big blows from the Caribbean have been in September. It is not unusual for an equinoctial storm to beat the calendar by a week or so (autumnal equinox: Sept. 22). Florida's last two bad ones (1926, 1928) came in September, also Porto Rico's (1928), Santo Domingo's (1930). Cuba's last serious hurricane struck in October...
...helped found Scadta Airways, in Colombia and Venezuela, was its technical adviser till 1925. Capt. Hammer's engineering ability, combined with his familiarity with South American Airways, caused the Dornier company to select him for the DO-X's passenger-carrying trip up the South American coast via Porto Rico, Cuba and Miami...
...occasional game of golf (medium) is the only pastime allowed to punctuate Professor Monroe's far-flung cultural ministrations, which have extended to Poland, Jugoslavia. Smyrna, Porto Rico. China. Long a cordial sympathizer with the woes of China, it was Dr. Monroe who formed the plan whereby the Boxer indemnities, remitted by Congress in 1924, were steered into a fund for Chinese educational development. Last winter, fearful lest China turn Red, he urged the State Department to have German Reparations applied by capitalist Europe and the U. S. to China, to disband armies, build public works. The State Department...
...received Dr. Celeo Davila as the new Honduran Minister to the U. S. The President will have to be careful not to confuse him with Ambassador Carlos Davila of Chile, Minister Charles Davila of Rumania, Commercial Attaché Cesar Davila of Venezuela or Resident Commissioner Felix Davila of Porto Rico...