Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because your reference to a Porto Rican burglar [TIME, July 6] reveals a spirit of contempt for Porto Ricans in general, I do not feel it rude on my part to reveal the following: Porto Rico has for long learned to associate American bankers with criminals and would have rejoiced at seeing them handcuffed to Porto Rican burglars long before this...
Last week Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, far-traveling Director of Prohibition, returned to New York from a four-day inspection trip to Porto Rico. Before he went to a reserve officers' camp for a fortnight's training, Col. Woodcock declared: "Porto Rico is pretty wet; our effort there has been rather weak. But the natives are a temperate lot. Porto Rico is so situated that bootleggers from Santo Domingo and Martinique have little difficulty in smuggling in their wares. In addition there are many small stills in operation. We have only three Federal agents on the island...
...politico of the Philippines is, with the possible exception of the same species in Porto Rico, the most politically-minded individual under the U. S. flag. Politics is his profession, his badge of honor. He practices it with a holy passion. Last week the ninth Philippine Legislature, packed with politicos dedicated to independence from the U. S., sat for the first time. As custom requires, Governor General Dwight Filley Davis appeared before a joint session of the House and Senate to deliver his legislative message. He was heard in stony silence and allowed to depart without applause. He had dared...
...Paris. Sosthenes, the more aggressive of the two, went to Manhattan at the start of the century, grew a beard to look older than he was, went into the foreign banking trade. In 1906 both brothers took over their stepfather's Porto Rican sugar plantation. When the Porto Rico Telephone Co. fell into the hands of a friend who had accepted it in payment of a bad debt, the Behn Brothers took it over, combined with it the Cuban telephone system a few years later. They have been accumulating telephone and telegraph systems the world over ever since...
Guayama, Porto Rico...