Word: marines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...stopped them, said there could be a celebration after four years if they kept their campaign promises, a day of mourning if they did not. In Puerto Rico the jibaro family income is about $120, and jibaros often sell their votes (usual price: $2). Said Muñoz Marin: "If you want to sell your vote, go ahead; it's a free country. But be sure you get something for it." Then he would tell them what they were selling, and wind up: "You can't get both justice and the two dollars...
...became more deeply involved in his crusade, Muñoz Marin became increasingly ironic about politicians. Once some social service workers asked him about the prevalence of homosexuality in Puerto Rico. "Can't be very popular," snorted the reformer, "or some political party would make it a plank in its platform." Program of the Popular Democratic Party includes abolition of the 1?-a-pound salt tax, the 2% sales tax, tax exemption for homes valued at $1,000 or less, restrictions on mortgage foreclosures, establishment of a social-security commission. Beyond that Muñoz Marin wants a reform...
Last November the Populares won ten of the 19 Senate seats, tied with the Coalition in the lower house. Last month Muñoz Marin's party took office and he was elected president of the Senate. Also on hand was the new Governor, Pennsylvania's Guy Swope. There was no doubt of the immensity of Muñoz Marin's task: Puerto Rico's sugar industry is depressed, her coffee trade war-killed, her population problem acute, her living costs high, labor restless (although the U. S. is spending $40,000,000 for defense...
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...