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...brooding Luis Muñoz Marin, President of Puerto Rico's Senate, disembarked in Manhattan, looking mournful, as usual. But he was full of hope. If the U.S. Senate confirms his good friend Rexford Guy Tugwell as Governor of Puerto Rico, it will be another milestone in the peaceful, ballot-box revolution which Luis Muñoz Marin started three years...
When Muñoz Marin went back to his native Puerto Rico in 1931, he did not like what he saw there. The poverty-stricken jibaros lived in misery and squalor. There were no gay tropical restaurants in Puerto Rico, no swank hotels...
...said Luis Muñoz Marin, Puerto Rico's most extraordinary politician, in his Fourth of July speech in San Juan. Of all the great mass of oratory on the Fourth-the sincere, the deeply-felt, the mechanical-his was perhaps the most imaginative. For Muñoz Marin, around again after his illness (TIME, March 31), did not merely spout the old phrases or wave the old words. He appealed for a united celebration of all the independence days of the Western Hemisphere (Cuba's May 20, Argentina's May 25, Venezuela's July...
...that great day Muñoz Marin proposed a united flag of democracy...
Last week, in a night session, the nine Coalitionist Senators walked out, left Popular Democratic Party Senators without a quorum. Muñoz Marin staggered from his sickbed to the Senate chamber. Doors and windows were closed to protect him from pneumonia. The crowded galleries set up a cheer. Muñoz Marin could not take the chair, sat wearing an overcoat and muffler, stifling his coughing in a handkerchief. The hall grew silent. With great difficulty, an expression of profound sadness on his features, he began: "Nothing, nothing, nothing can paralyze the Populares' task. I will be here...