Word: mariners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks the back-country jibaros (farmers) had planned for El Dia Dos (Jan. 2)-the great day when Puerto Rico would inaugurate its first elected governor. When the day came this week, 150,000 islanders turned out to cheer for Governor Luis Mufioz Marin in the biggest celebration of San Juan's 455-year history...
...Cidra, high in the mountains of central Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marin was taking it easy. The island's first elected governor had shut himself off from the well-wishers who had turned his town house into a public place. Only for leathery jibaros (farmers) like Eustachio Pérez Guzman was the door still open. Eustachio had vowed that if victory came to the Popular Democratic Party, he would go and kneel before Don Luis. To finance the journey, he had sold two of his six chickens, set out from his remote western hamlet of Isabela...
Four hundred and fifty-five years after Columbus discovered the island, Puerto Rico at last elected its own governor.* Last week's election brought neither surprises nor upsets; somber-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin, leader of the Popular Democratic Party, rolled to victory with 62% of the 629,000 votes cast...
...jibaros (farmers) were coming down from the hills for the Popular Democratic Party's convention. One morning last week, more than 100,000 of them jammed into Sixto Escobar Athletic Park. By the time the last "Viva!" died away, they had nominated 50-year-old Luis Munoz Marin, president of the Insular Senate, as their candidate in the island's first gubernatorial election...
Like a mail-order catalogue, the show had a little of everything-from the sharp literalness of an Edward Hopper Civil War scene, to a tangled, crisscross abstraction by Mark Tobey. There were the sanitary surfaces of Georgia O'Keeffe, the fluid mists of John Marin, a pasteboard street scene by Stuart Davis. A few canvases with less familiar trademarks made gallery-goers look twice: Joe Jones's "Departure" from a grim and desolate wasteland; Henry Koerner's tired old couple, huddled in a cart, gazing numbly at the ruin about them; Theodore Lux Feininger...