Word: marination
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election last Tuesday of Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munoz Marin was gratifying news. Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of his victory was its reaffirmation of the separation of church and state...
...Puerto Rico, Governor Munoz Marin won his expected election by a comfortable margin, despite the oppositions of Puerto Rican bishops...
...Baptist Standard (circ. 361,116), the nation's largest religious weekly. "Puerto Rico is American soil." In Puerto Rico, three Roman Catholic bishops had declared it a sin to vote for a man opposed by the church. The man was three-term Gover nor Luis Muñoz Marin, up for re-election on the same day the continental U.S., but not Puerto Rico, votes in a presidential election for Nixon or Kennedy (see THE HEMISPHERE...
Until a fortnight ago, when the island's three Roman Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter forbidding Catholics to vote for Governor Luis Muñoz Marin and his Popular Democratic Party, Puerto Rico's gubernatorial campaign was a race without an issue. Muñoz' opponent, Luis Ferré, candidate of the Statehood Republican Party and a partner in the island's largest private enterprise (Ferré Industries), had demanded a plebiscite on statehood, but foxy old Muñoz sidetracked that issue. His party slipped a rule through the legislature that no statehood plebiscite...
...Rico's new Catholic Action Party, openly sponsored by Davis and McManus, took full-page daily ads in the newspapers to remind voters that "Catholics cannot vote for the Popular Party." Spot radio commercials proclaimed that "the Masons, the Protestants and the Communists obey Luis Muñoz Marin. Catholics obey their bishops...