Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given by Governor of the Federal Reserve Board & Mrs. Eugene Meyer Jr. for their daughter Elizabeth. It was a post-debut celebration (Debutante Meyer came out the week before). Swankiest elements of the guest list: children of the French and Belgian Ambassadors; the daughters of the Governor of Porto Rico, of the Governor General of the Philippines and of the Secretary of Agriculture; the son of the Secretary of the Navy. Manhattan. Surrounded by liveried negroes, Mr. & Mrs. William Robertson Coe introduced Natalie Mai Coe to society in a setting designed to remind guests that one branch of the family...
Bolivia: Announced a legal holiday with a two-minute period of silence. Hundreds of students and public authorities scrambled up Cerro Rico, the peak from which Bolivar first saw the country that was to bear his name...
...Next month E. A. T. will open in time for the winter trade its passenger service to Miami, there to connect with Pan American Airways' lines to Cuba, Porto Rico, Central and South America...
...Texas and found his man- tall, slender, greying-haired George Charles Butte of Austin. Born in California 53 years ago, the new Vice Governor was educated at Heidelberg and Paris. He had special qualities to please his President: 1) he can speak Spanish fluently; 2) his service as Porto Rico's Attorney General (1925-28) proved him a good colonial administrator ; 3) as dean of the law school of the University of Texas (1923-24) and as a special assistant to the U. S. Attorney General (1928-30) he showed himself a scholarly lawyer; 4) though...
...Cuba, five; Czecho-Slovakia, one; England, 25; Finland, one; France, ten; Germany, ten; Greece, five; Guatemala, City, one; Hawaii, ten; Ireland, two; Italy, four; Japan, ten; Korea, two; Latvia, one; Lithuania, one; Norway, one; Nova Scotia, six; Palestine, four; Panama, one; Peru, one; Phillippine Islands, one; Poland, four; Porto Rico, five; Roumania, two; Russia, six; South Africa, four; Spain, four; Sweden, three; Switzerland, six; Syria, one; British West Indies, one; Turkey, five; Venezuela, three; Yugoslavia...