Word: electioneers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every comely stenographer on the Navy's Quonset Point Air Station near Providence had been acting a little skittish lately. The reason was the big, annual all-station ball for the base's 3,900 sailors and civilian personnel. This year, the big feature was the election of...
Thin Victory. In the 1940 election, Muñoz' Populares squeezed out a thin victory. He became Senate president and, in effect, the real ruler of Puerto Rico.
In the main, Muñoz and Tugwell worked together harmoniously, though Muñoz was more conservative than New Dealer Tugwell. Tugwell could never get over the fact that Muñoz acted sometimes like a high-minded idealist, sometimes like a job-hungry political boss. Muñoz...
In desperation, during last year's campaign, some of his opponents even tried the unorthodox (for Puerto Rico) tactic of raking up his private life-Muñoz' first marriage broke up in the late '303, when he fell in love with a former high-school teacher...
The re-election was not protested by any of the candidates.