Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suburbia. Their first house was on Staten Island, where they met Edwin Markham and formed a friendship that endured until Markham's death. Muñoz' translation of The Man with the Hoe is still regarded as the authoritative Spanish version...
...straight to the heart and mind of the humblest and least educated hearer. This has been a priceless gift. Muñoz built his political career on the support of Puerto Rico's jibaros, the small farmers and rural workers who comprise about 70% of his island's population. They are still the bedrock basis of his power...
...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 became the island's Resident Commissioner in Washington. Today he is venerated for having won U.S. citizenship for his countrymen...
...more spacious in the land of his birth, but the poverty and slackness that met his eye in San Juan shocked him. He made up his mind in a hurry: "No Puerto Rican has the right to be a literato unless he first does something about conditions in this island...
...biggest headache, tne island's mushrooming population, there is certainly no quick cure. Emigration to the U.S. has helped to relieve the pressure of chronic unemployment-and made New York the biggest Puerto Rican city in the world. Charter and nonscheduled airline operators, competing fiercely for passengers on the San Juan-New York run, at one time knocked the price of passage down to as low as $10. Last year 260,000 Puerto Ricans were already in the U.S. and the northward flow is continuing. But this transfer of population is at best a temporary expedient. Island officials have...