Word: governor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...larger tasks now confronting mankind, nationalism is obsolescent," Governor Munoz Marin of Puerto Rico asserted last night. Speaking before a sparse but enthusiastic audience in the first of three Godkin Lectures at Sanders Theatre, the Governor said that nationalism has produced a politics at variance with the realities of the world...
Despite its generally cordial atmosphere, the dinner witnessed one clash of opinion when first speaker Lt. Governor Robert F. Murphy, a recent critic of Governor Foster Furcolo's proposed sales tax, launched another attack on the Governor...
Murphy based this attack on the Governor's recent appointment of several Republicans to high state positions. Claiming the appointment policy would "demoralize the party" and prevent the implementation of Democratic platform promises, Murphy called on Furcolo to reverse his policy...
...rebuttal to Murphy came from Butler himself, who in his introduction said that it was "no crime for a Governor to appoint a Republican," and expressed hope that local Democrats would settle their differences before the 1960 campaign. Butler admitted that he had more than once voted for a Republican candidate "in the belief that the particular man was a better candidate...
...year-old governor is widely credited for bringing "commonwealth" status to the Caribbean island taken by the United States in the Spanish-American War. In 1950, by maintaining a middle course between the Republicanos who wanted statehood, and the Independistas who wanted complete separation from the United States, Munoz was instrumental in the creation of an elective governorship, which gave the islanders both the political protection of the United States and continued freedom from federal taxes...