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...Every male citizen of the United States, and every other person residing in the continental United States or in the Territory of Alaska or in the Territory of Hawaii or in Puerto Rico, other than persons excepted by section 5 (a) of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, and by section 208 of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941, is required to and shall on February 16, 1942, present himself for and submit to registration before a duly designated registration official or selective service local board having jurisdiction in the area in which...
...Coamo put them ashore in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As far as was known at week's end, they were the only survivors of the Lady out of some 300 who had been aboard. Among the missing: 27 men (out of 40) from St. Joseph, Mo., who had jumped at an opportunity to go to Bermuda on a construction job. Shocked, St. Joe's News-Press cried out a curse on submarines: "May the U-boat that struck by stealth, bringing death to more than a score of St. Joseph citizens, meet with such a fate. . . . Before...
...like many another sincere New Dealer, Rex Tugwell is no impartial statesman. He loves the people to beat hell, and he has a fairly simple blueprint of hell. As Governor of Puerto Rico, greyheaded Rex Tugwell went grayer for the Popular Democratic Party of his friend Muñoz Marin...
...large Tugwell has shown himself a cautious administrator. Puerto Rico's Legislature appropriated $7,000,000 to carry out Muñoz Marin's (and Tugwell's) pet project of buying up some 200,000 corporate-owned acres of sugar-cane lands, dividing them into tracts of 500 acres or less, then selling them to the hungry, landless jibaros on 40-year terms. So far, not a cent has been spent. Appraisers are still checking over two modest plantations whose owners offered to sell...
Even if the Coalitionists do succeed in ousting Rex Tugwell from the Governor's chair, he has another to sit in. Before President Roosevelt appointed him Governor, his good friend Muñoz Marin made him Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico (TIME, Aug. 18). The University has never accepted his resignation. As Governor, he draws $10,000 a year; as Chancellor, he would...