Word: mu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith: an embroidered map of Korea, shaped like a mu goong wha*; by 20 Koreans...
...like many another sincere New Dealer, Rex Tugwell is no impartial statesman. He loves the people to beat hell, and he has a fairly simple blueprint of hell. As Governor of Puerto Rico, greyheaded Rex Tugwell went grayer for the Popular Democratic Party of his friend Muñoz Marin...
Fortnight ago, Rex Tugwell fired the Coalition members of San Juan's civilian-defense board, replaced them with Populares. Saying that civilian defense had bogged down, he put a friend of Muñoz Marin at the head of civilian defense in San Juan and its neighbor cities. Coalitionists retorted that Tugwell had thrown a wrench in the works, said: "He is harder to see than the Pope...
...large Tugwell has shown himself a cautious administrator. Puerto Rico's Legislature appropriated $7,000,000 to carry out Muñoz Marin's (and Tugwell's) pet project of buying up some 200,000 corporate-owned acres of sugar-cane lands, dividing them into tracts of 500 acres or less, then selling them to the hungry, landless jibaros on 40-year terms. So far, not a cent has been spent. Appraisers are still checking over two modest plantations whose owners offered to sell...
Even if the Coalitionists do succeed in ousting Rex Tugwell from the Governor's chair, he has another to sit in. Before President Roosevelt appointed him Governor, his good friend Muñoz Marin made him Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico (TIME, Aug. 18). The University has never accepted his resignation. As Governor, he draws $10,000 a year; as Chancellor, he would...