Word: rico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Also nominated: Nicholas Roosevelt, New York Times editorial writer, third cousin of Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico, to be Vice Governor-General of the Philippines...
Robert Szold, 40, becomes Chairman of the Administrative Committee, and so the actual head of U. S. Zionism. A brilliant Manhattan lawyer, he was (1914-15) Assistant Attorney-General of Porto Rico, assistant (1915-18) to Solicitor General John William Davis. Mrs. Szold (Zip S. Falk of Savannah) is a member of Bryn Mawr's summer school administrative committee, is President of Hadassah women s Zionist organization. The Szolds live with their three young daughters at Pelham, New York residential suburb...
...young, high-bred Holstein bull, en route from Pennsylvania to Porto Rico (object: paternity), arrived last week on the Staten Island shore of New York Harbor in a big strong crate on a motor truck. The truck went aboard the ferryboat Nassau. The motion of the ferry excited the bull. It hooked at the crate's slats, then hurled its 1,200 lbs. against the end boards, burst through, charged the truck driver and the ferry's brass-buttoned mate. All passengers and the mate fled to the top deck, leaving the bull snorting and plunging below. Came...
...happened to strike such a line of difficult stocks. Kindly have statement made out showing all sales and purchases since last statement. . . . Managed after hard struggle to land $400 which I am enclosing. ... I am being [kept] on edge, and fear of flop in the Paige, Butterick, Porto Rico and Moon have conspired to induce pessimism. . . . Never wire Washington unless I give definite instruction. Always causes unpleasant complications...
...Fifteen guests including the sons of two Presidents (Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico and Lawyer Robert Alfonso Taft of Cincinnati) accompanied President Hoover to his Rapidan Camp over the weekend. There they found Mrs. Hoover, convalescing from the injury to her back two months ago. The President caught a 16-in. 2-lb. rainbow trout with a black gnat fly, the season's record for him. Rain and bad weather drove the President and his party back to Washington ahead of time...