Word: rico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...landing of U.S. troops on their island in 1898. Then Harry Truman gave them reason. On that day he chose a native Puerto Rican as their governor, the first to hold the post. He was burly 49-year-old Jesús Toribio Piñero, since 1944 Puerto Rico's elected Resident Commissioner in Washington...
...Accepted the resignation of Puerto Rico's Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell, onetime glamor boy of the New Deal, now off to a congenial job at the University of Chicago...
Airlines a nonstop Miami to Puerto Rico route. The President had ordered the Los Angeles-Mexico City route taken away from Pan Am and given to Western Airlines. A badly flustered CAB issued certificates to both Pan Am and Western. Best break for Pan Am was that it got something it has long wanted, a nonstop route from New York to Puerto Rico...
Podin served in Puerto Rico as Commissioner of Education from 1930 to 1936. He was appointed to that post by President Hoover and reappointed in 1934 by President Roosevelt, and is at present editor in chief of the D. C. Health Publishing Company...
Jose Podin, former commissioner of Education in Puerto Rico, charged on Thursday night that the island's present suger-dominated economy is "very unsatisfactory." His address was made before members of the Spanish Club in Harvard Hall...