Word: mariners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hult-berg's Yellow Sky (TIME, May 2, 1955), and including Childe Hassam, George Bellows and Edward Hopper. Across the hall was a first-rate collection made up of nothing but onetime nonwinners: Albert Pinkham Ryder, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Sloan, Marsden Hartley and John Marin. Said Corcoran Director Williams: "We know from the statistics of previous shows that only three or four of the exhibitors will be names to conjure with in the year 2007. Which ones are they...
Election Day went according to form in Puerto Rico. Governor Luis Muñoz Marin won his third four-year term handily, polling almost twice as many votes as his two opponents combined. By giving Muñoz Marin's Popular Democratic Party a landslide-proportioned 62.5% of the total vote, Puerto Ricans proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that they prefer the governor's personally designed status as a U.S.-associated commonwealth to either national independence or U.S. statehood...
...votes, the Statehood Party only 84,056. This time the roles were reversed; the Independentists got only 86,101 votes while the Statehood Party more than doubled its 1952 vote, receiving 171,910. It was clear that even among those Puerto Ricans who are opposed to Muñoz Marin. a whacking majority want U.S. ties...
...first news conference after the election, Muñoz Marin declared the entire matter of the island's relationship with the U.S. a closed question for at least the next four years. "There are more important objectives in Puerto Rican life to be attained, and it would be a waste of time to discuss the political status," he said. Then he gave an ambitious example of the kind of objectives he had in mind: "The Cabinet and I have engineered a plan of effective work for the next four years-including rehabilitation of our agriculture to bring...
...significant, underlying issue of the election is Puerto Rico's relationship with the U.S. Ferre's party wants the island to ask Congress for statehood-which would give Puerto Ricans the vote in U.S. elections, but would subject them to the income tax. Munoz Marin sticks by his self-designed commonwealth status, under which Puerto Rico has substantial home rule along with tariff-free access to the U.S. mainland market, plus the common citizenship with the U.S. that lets the island's unemployed migrate freely. The majority of Puerto Ricans seem to like the commonwealth plan...