Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arizona slipped through Mona Pass and came to anchor at night off palm-fringed Ponce on the south coast of Porto Rico (see map, p. 8). Next morning President Hoover went ashore, was welcomed by Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico. Bands crashed. Natives cheered. For them it was a double holiday?the 58th anniversary of the abolition of slavery and the second visit to Porto Rico by a U. S. President. At the City Hall the President was presented with a large tablecloth on which had been embroidered elaborate flower designs. Governor Roosevelt had asked President Hoover to leave...
When the U. S. took Porto Rico from Spain in 1898 and made it an adjunct of the War Department, the island's population was suffering from four degrading centuries of misrule, neglect and exploitation. Quick crude efforts by hack administrators to '"Americanize" these people, part Spanish, part Negro, produced more resentment than results. In less than two years, however, Governor Roosevelt has done more to win their confidence than others in the last 20 years. He learned Spanish. He traveled over the islands. He set up relief stations, went to the U. S. to collect funds, to fight Porto...
...untouched remains Porto Rico's basic problem?over-population. On the island live 1,543,913 persons, or 450 to the square mile as compared with 40 in the U. S. (In Barbados it is 1,000 to the square mile.) In one decade the population has increased 18%,. The result is that Porto Rico's resources, natural and economic, are exhausted. Birth Control, seriously agitated in the insular government, is blocked by the dominant Roman Catholic Church. Poverty and hunger are on all sides. A laborer is lucky to make $150 per year. Hookworm and tubercu- losis take...
...mind one night last week to take an immediate ten-day vacation to U. S. possessions in the Caribbean. Going by train to Old Point Comfort, Va., he would board the U. S. S. Arizona for her scheduled "shakedown" run after reconditioning. The cruise would be to Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Secretary of War Hurley, possibly Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, would accompany him. Mrs. Hoover would stay behind...
What drew President Hoover to Porto Rico was the chronic economic distress of that square little island as a result of the 1928 hurricane. The big Hoover heart had been touched by Governor Theodore Roosevelt's description of the subnormal condition of Porto Rico's children. The second Chief Executive to visit the territory (the elder Roosevelt was there in 1906), President Hoover wanted to see things for himself, study rehabilitation...