Word: rico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gold against U.S. pressure. Now he refused utterly to deal with the Committee of Liberation. Said Henri Hoppenot: the Admiral was in a "tragic frame of mind . . . suffering from a Messianic complex and retaining a fanatic loyalty to Petain." From Martinique Georges Robert went into exile in U.S. Puerto Rico, under the protection of the U.S. Navy...
...movies were provided by the War Department and welfare agencies. When the AMPS was founded in 1921 it had only "a woefully small sum of money ... a few buildings which were theaters in name only." Today it operates in all 48 states plus Alaska, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Panama. Army theaters in the U.S. are now built in three sizes, seating 364, 602, 1038, and have an annual attendance of 225,000,000. They rent standard-size films from the producers at an estimated annual cost of over...
...strictly Government Issue publication, it will last roughly only for the duration, does not worry about circulation (figures are secret) or profit. Yank now has four editions-two published in New York (for U.S. camps, for overseas distribution), one in London for soldiers stationed in Britain, one in Puerto Rico for Caribbean garrisons. Others are planned...
Born in Cincinnati 68 years ago, handsome Bishop Leonard, one of the few Methodist Bishops who wore a clerical collar, served churches in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Rome, Italy, was elected a Bishop in 1916. Since 1939 he served as resident Bishop of the Washington Area. A militant prohibitionist, he was once president of New York's Anti-Saloon League, was famed among Methodists for his forthright sermons, his uncompromising attitudes...
...name from the Greek word meaning "life strength," was born in the Virgin Islands, of French and Danish parents. Schooled in Corsica and Paris, at 19 he was an up-&-coming banker in Manhattan, grew a luxuriant beard to disguise his youth. While on a trip to Puerto Rico the local telephone company almost fell into his lap. He went into the telephone business, in 1924 got King Alphonso of Spain to contract for I.T. & T. telephone service in Spain. Last week cosmopolitan Mr. Behn reported that seme 61% of I.T. & T.'s assets are in the Americas (mainly...