Word: rico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico, Guam and Hawaii by the time of the Armistice. There were also 300 marinettes or Marine Corps girls. But none were officers...
Unanswered Question. When Admiral Leahy was ready for retirement in 1939, Franklin Roosevelt decided he was too good a horse to turn out to pasture, made him Governor of Puerto Rico, then pulled him out for the U.S.'s toughest diplomatic mission: emissary to Vichyfrance. As Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief, Seadog Leahy will need diplomacy. Working directly with and under the President, he will be over the Army's Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and the Navy's COMINCH Admiral Ernest Joseph King. But whether Leahy would be a real boss...
...ridden, slum-ridden"-a very nice little jingle indeedbut not original. Why pick on slums as a particular characteristic of Puerto Rico when the whole world is "ridden" with them, and even the wealthiest country on this earth...
...Puerto Rican American citizens, that you owe us an apology. As a subscriber of many years' standing I am surprised and ashamed to see my favorite periodical gratuitously insult our people and falsify the facts in so brazen a manner; to wit: there are no jungles in Puerto Rico; as to swamps, there are some few hundred acres which are yearly being eliminated by reclamation. Surely we have slums in Borinquén bella, but absolutely not in the proportion your article insinuates. As to rum, let me inform you that more than 85% of our production...
Poverty-struck and overpopulated Puerto Rico, stepchild among U.S. territories, was chosen as the first backyard for experimental freedom. Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell proposed that Puerto Ricans be given the right to elect their own governor. Franklin Roosevelt quickly stepped up to announce that he liked the idea. If Congress changes the Organic Act of 1917, self-government will go into effect in Puerto Rico in 1944 or as soon thereafter as the war ends...