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Represented by the largest numbers of students are Canada with 51, China 41, Germany 41, England 22, Hawaii 21, Czechoslovakia 13, France 12, Australia 11, Peru 10, Puerto Rico 10 and Argentina...
...wrote "Inside Europe" and "Inside Asia," John Gunther might well be expected to crash through with another attempt to get "inside" some place or other. And that is exactly what he's done in "Inside Latin America," a racy and thoroughly informative sketch of Latin America, plays Puerto Rico and Trinidad...
Without waiting for a recount of University of Puerto Rico's students, who had demanded that he choose between the chancellorship of their university and the Governorship of their island, Rexford Guy Tugwell resigned the $15,000 chancellorship, was sworn into the $10,000 Governorship...
...Governor's retreat in Puerto Rico's mountains, Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell last week pondered whether to be or not to be Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico. On the university's palmy campus, its hot-tempered students got into a stew over the same question...
When the university's trustees, prompted by Puerto Rico's political leader, Senate President Luis Muñoz Marin, invited Tugwell to be their chancellor (TIME, Aug. 4), hoisting the salary to $15,000 to make the job attractive, everybody seemed happy. Trouble started when President Roosevelt also appointed Tugwell the island's Governor. Tugwell indicated he would take a leave from the chancellorship and let a subordinate run the university until another Governor was found to relieve him. But the students wanted no pinch hitter as chancellor...