Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until 1950, Puerto Rico had been ruled by an appointed governor. In that year, Munoz succeeded in convincing the United States Congress that an elected governor would better serve the interests both of the Puerto Ricans and the residents of the United States. In 1952 he added the final step...
Munoz went to work on the Puerto Ricans by holding to a middle course between the Republicanos and the Independentistas. In 1938 he established a third party the Partido Popular, and in 1940 the party won its first electoral victory in the insular senate. In these years of the late...
Though defenders of liberal education are as strongly opposed to subversion as Senator Mundt, who introduced this provision, the "loyalty oath" remains an unattractive monument to misguided patriotism. In the first place, a genuine subversive would have no compunctions about signing such an oath, thereby rendering the provision powerless to...
Little known to his countrymen, 47-year-old Michel Debré is even less well known abroad-and what Western statesmen did know of him was scarcely calculated to delight them. Short, stocky and black-haired, Debré has the face of an irascible chipmunk, and in the past has...
"We thank God that the Atlantic stands between us and the ignominy of a written constitution," a member of the Cambridge University Debate Union declared yesterday afternoon in a transatlantic debate with the Harvard Debate Council.