Word: rico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sightseeing and a competition to choose the likeliest boy & girl scientists in the U.S. They were finalists in the third annual science talent search run by the news agency Science Service. They had tea in the White House with Eleanor Roosevelt before she went off to Puerto Rico. They chatted with Vice President Wallace, hobnobbed with eminent elder scientists, swarmed irreverently through the halls of Congress and the endless corridors of the Pentagon...
...cannot see any reason to justify why, in a good democracy," cried Senate President Luis Munoz Marin, leader of the dominating Popular Democratic Party, "Puerto Rico should be denied the right to have complete self-government without limitation." Independent-sounding amens came fast from all other party leaders-Union Republicans, Socialists, whatnots...
...Pren Rico...
...Butler included $57 million spent in Puerto Rico as part of his $6 billion Latin American outlay. Reply: Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, not a foreign country...
...Asked Congress to grant home rule for Puerto Rico, including election of the Governor (now appointed by the President...