Word: rico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night long a steady stream of cars, buses and trucks inched its way toward San Juan. Puerto Rico's jibaros (farmers) were coming down from the hills for the Popular Democratic Party's convention. One morning last week, more than 100,000 of them jammed into Sixto Escobar Athletic Park. By the time the last "Viva!" died away, they had nominated 50-year-old Luis Munoz Marin, president of the Insular Senate, as their candidate in the island's first gubernatorial election...
...builds up its economic health. His platform: industrialization, expansion of the social legislation which he wrote in the days before Governor Rexford G. Tugwell* arrived, a new Pureto Rican constitution by revision or replacement of the present Organic Act-to provide that no changes shall be made in Puerto Rico's governmental system without consulting the islanders...
...TIME'S news assignments are different from those of any other publication I have ever worked for-and that includes the Lexington (Ky.) Leader, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Puerto Rico World Journal and the Dayton (Ohio) News, as well as the Havana Post, of which I am, as you know, news editor...
...Harrington of the National Park Service that he has uncovered the outlines of Fort Raleigh built by Governor Ralph Lane in 1585. The radical shape of the fort (its bastions are on the sides, rather than the corners) is identical with another fort built by Governor Lane in Puerto Rico while en route to Roanoke...
...years since, he has retraced their footsteps everywhere in the New World except in Puerto Rico; last week the press of duties forced him to cancel a tramp-steamship trip on which he planned to go there...