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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Podin Lecture Assails Puerto Rico Economy | 4/13/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Podin Lecture Assails Puerto Rico Economy | 4/13/1946 | See Source »

...might be equally strong. Here, all the bases sought by the Navy are already established, either on U.S. territory or on sites acquired in the 1940 destroyers-for-bases deal with Britain. Outstanding among them is the great naval operating base at Roosevelt Roads in eastern Puerto Rico, which could not be finished in time for the Battle of the Atlantic, now to be left to the caretakers, ready for quick use in an emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Priceless Filigree | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Married. Gloria Chavez, 20, younger daughter of New Mexico's Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez, and a George Washington University undergraduate (fellow student Margaret Truman was a bridesmaid); and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Jorge Enrique Tristani, 26, U.S.-trained radar expert from Puerto Rico; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

SERVICEMEN'S NAMES WITHHELD Puerto Rico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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