Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Luis Muñoz Marin likes to think that Puerto Rico's commonwealth relationship to the U.S. is "like a tree; it may grow, but not into any other kind of tree." Last week the signs were that, despite Muñoz Marin's eloquent opposition. the kind of tree into which the commonwealth will one day grow is statehood...
...slowest in the nation) in 1991, Mississippi in 1996. Statehooders, who are willing to pay the penalty of increased taxes in return for an end to what they call "second-class citizenship," find that too long to wait, talk of statehood within ten years or sooner. To them, Governor Muñoz Marin's political timetable is less significant than his reluctant admission that the tide for statehood is running strong...
...racially embattled Little Rock, a prime point of interest last week was a religious conversion. Not long ago, Clothing Dealer Jimmy Karam was a pal of Governor Faubus, a segregationist leader of the 1957 riots at Central High School; during last fall's elections, he faked an inflammatory picture of a Negro family agitating for "equality" (TIME, Oct. 6). But now invective ("lying bastards, gutless s.o.b.s.") is gone from his lips. He holds court in his Main Street store, telling all comers that "only Jesus is important. If everybody could take Jesus to their hearts, there would...
Business gave way to ceremony, at least briefly, at the Gold Coast Valeteria Saturday morning, when Lieutenant Governor Robert F. Murphy (left) came to Cambridge to swear in Walter H. Levitan, son-in-law of Goldcoaster, owner-laundryman Benny Jacobson, as a Notary Public...
Startled customers had to wait a few minutes to get their shirts back, but several of them stood around watching Murphy sip coffee and note the passing scene on Plympton St. Jacobson is Executive Assistant to the Lieutenant Governor...