Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Corps had done the nursing at the several hospitals of each of our big camps-Montauk, Chickamauga and Jacksonville, at 31 other hospitals in U. S., on hospital ships and transports, in Honolulu and at several places in Cuba, in Porto Rico and the Philippines. Owing to the splendid work, efficiency and self-sacrifice of these women-13 of whom died at their posts in '98-it became a matter of course that the Army must have their help permanently; so when the War Department framed the "Reorganization Act," which became law Feb. 2, 1901, this...
...week-end guests at his Rapidan camp the President last week had Edsel Ford and Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico who is now reported to aspire to the Governorship of the Philippines. President Hoover reached the camp just in time to settle down before a big log fire and broadcast a brief speech dedicating Cornell University's War Memorial.* His theme: the patriotism of college men who went...
Porto Rican American Tobacco Co. started a new type of advertising for its "El Toro" cigars. Under a picture of Porto Rico's Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and over his signature it headlined: ROOSEVELT SAYS: "Give Porto Rican products a chance. . . . Our sugar, our fruit, both canned and fresh, our coffee, our vegetables, our hand embroidery, our needlework and our tobacco, are all in my opinion of exceptional quality. ... I wish our fellow Americans on the continent would give us a chance to prove the quality of these articles by trying them and seeing if they do not agree...
...Author, Thomas Craven, 42, is a red-haired Kansan, as unassuming in private conversation as he is dogmatic on the printed page. He has been a reporter in Denver, a schoolmaster in California and Porto Rico, a deckhand in the West Indies, an unsuccessful painter and poet. His essay, "Have Painters Minds?" in the American Mercury for March 1927, brought him into contact with such critical bigwigs as Britain's Roger Fry, France's Elie Faure. Today the entire U. S. art world pays attention...
Governor Roosevelt has publicly complained that the U. S. treats Porto Rico more like a stepchild than a member of the Federal family. His relief program consists largely of trying to put the jibraros back on the land, to make them selfsupporting. Likewise he would increase the island's industrialization with the aid of ample waterpower. Porto Rico, for instance, produces 600,000 tons of raw sugar per year but lacks a big refinery. Politically Porto Rico wants full statehood (minor voices call for independence) or at least a civil territorial status like Hawaii and Alaska. Porto Ricans were outraged...