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Last April when President Roosevelt appointed Robert Hayes Gore to be Governor of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican politicos did their best to find out who he was. Unlike their then Governor ,Republican James Rumsey Beverley, he had never lived in Puerto Rico. Unlike young Theodore Roosevelt who had preceded Governor Beverley, he had no great name. All they could discover was that he came from Florida, had nine children. They were pleased with the nine children because that meant that he could sympathize with the Puerto Rican love of big families. They were also pleased to find that...
...Juan, Porto Rico...
...whom was the Post sold? There were guesses galore: Publisher Julius David Stern of the Philadelphia Record. Publisher Frank Noyes of the Washington Star. Governor General Robert Gore of Puerto Rico, who publishes three Florida newspapers. James Middleton Cox or Representative Chester Bolton of Ohio. John J. Raskob. Rarely had the principal in a major transaction effected such complete anonymity. Revelation was promised after the District Court should confirm the sale. Meanwhile some shrewd guessers eyed Eugene Meyer, onetime governor of the Federal Reserve Bank. Supposed motive: promotion of a Republican comeback...
...pinned a Congressional Medal of Honor on the Hobson breast for that feat. Mr. Hobson is nowadays a famed anti-narcotics crusader (TIME, March 2, 1931). ¶ Long and loyal service was rewarded last week when President Roosevelt appointed Robert Hayes Gore of Florida to be Governor of Puerto Rico. Loudly had Publisher Gore boomed Franklin Roosevelt for the Presidency through his Fort Lauderdale News, his Deland Sun-News, his Daytona Beach Sun-Record. The President picked his first cousin Warren Delano Robbins as Minister to Canada, and Hugh Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium and for 25 years a career diplomat...
...Poland James Michael Curley, thrice mayor of Boston, was given a nomination to be U. S. Ambassador. This one-time grocery boy had early hopped the Roosevelt bandwagon but failed to carry Massachusetts for his candidate in the presidential primary. He squeezed into the Chicago convention on a Puerto Rico proxy, campaigned lustily for the party nominee out of earshot of his own State. For his services he expected nothing less than a seat in the Cabinet. When he did not get that, he picked out Rome and the U. S. Ambassadorship there as his reward. Last month after...