Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surely grow worse. With one of the world's highest birth rates (31.3 v. 24.4 per 1,000 in the U.S.), Puerto Rico's people are increasing at the rate of 69,000 a year. The population has more than doubled in the half-century of U.S. rule; it could double again in a generation...
Life Span. The first large group of U.S. visitors ever to come to Puerto Rico were the 3,415 troops commanded by Major General Nelson A. Miles, who splashed ashore on the beaches at Guanica to end the rule of Spain in 1898. By the peace treaty, Puerto Rico became a U.S. possession. Puerto Ricans have U.S. citizenship; their Resident Commissioner in Washington has a voice in Congress, but no vote. Congress has the right to repeal any act of the Puerto Rican legislature. The right has never been used, but its continued existence irks Puerto Ricans...
...Legend. Muñoz came to politics almost by birthright. His father, Luis Muñoz Rivera, often called Puerto Rico's George Washington, headed the colonial government in the latter days of the Spanish rule, and in 1897 obtained from the Madrid government a charter which provided some autonomies (e.g., the right to make trade treaties with foreign nations) which Puerto Rico does not have now. After the cession of Puerto Rico to the U.S., Muñoz Rivera was invited to take a cabinet post in Madrid. He declined. He chose to stay in Puerto Rico, later...
Fred Miller has already applied to CAB for certification as an air-coach operator. Whether he gets it or not, the new rule is not likely to be a death sentence to Air America.; Miller can always retreat to some intrastate route, out of CAB's reach. But CAB's crackdown might kill off more than half the irregulars...
...Gimlet-eyed old Chairman Sewell Avery had no trouble at all in glowering down all opposition to his one-man rule of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. After a couple of critics had halfheartedly denounced him at the annual meeting of stockholders in Chicago, Avery easily won re-election as a director and chairman...