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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next year Rex Tugwell was appointed Governor and, teamed with Muñoz, began what became known as Puerto Rico's Little New Deal. Some of the laws behind it were already on the statute books; Tugwell and Muñoz breathed life into them. Among the important agencies that went into operation were the industrial-development and farm-development corporations, and the Puerto Rico Planning, Urbanizing and Zoning Board. The Land Authority tackled the job of enforcing a 40-year-old law limiting holdings of real estate by corporations to 500 acres...
Tugwell and Muñoz also tackled Puerto Rico's desperate need for new housing. In San Juan, for example, handsome, tropical-style homes line many an avenue, but many are close to the dismal slums of packing-box houses like El Fanguito (Little Mudhole) that stretches two miles along the tidal flats. The government's answer was the San José Housing Project, now almost complete, which will provide shelter for 6,200 families from El Fanguito. So far only a few families have been moved out, and officials privately admit that it may be necessary...
...main, Muñoz and Tugwell worked together harmoniously, though Muñoz was more conservative than New Dealer Tugwell. Tugwell could never get over the fact that Muñoz acted sometimes like a high-minded idealist, sometimes like a job-hungry political boss. Muñoz, on the other hand, found it difficult to convince Tugwell that even an idealistic politician needs enough patronage to grease the machine and win the next election. Tugwell, under fire from the sugar industry, the press and the U.S. Congress for most of is stay, resigned...
...Real Issue. Muñoz never took his eye off the political ball. He won a smashing legislative victory in 1944, and by 1948 he was a shoo-in for Governor. In both campaigns he told his people that their old obsession about political status, i.e., whether they should demand U.S. statehood or national independence, was not a valid issue. The real issue, he insisted, was the social and economic welfare of the Puerto Rican people...
...desperation, during last year's campaign, some of his opponents even tried the unorthodox (for Puerto Rico) tactic of raking up his private life-Muñoz' first marriage broke up in the late '303, when he fell in love with a former high-school teacher named Inez Maria Mendoza. They have had two children (now 9 and 8), were married two years ago, after Muñoz finally got a divorce. In the election Muñoz got 62% of the total vote...