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...early 1940s, a U.S. Senate committee declared Puerto Rico's problems "unsolvable." The Caribbean island had a rapidly expanding population, few natural resources, hardly any industry, and chronic unemployment that sometimes ran to one-third of the labor force. In 1942, a rising young politician named Luis Munoz Marin organized a self-help program called Operation Bootstrap; a few years later, as Governor, he invited U.S. companies south, offering them political stability plus wide tax advantages and a vast reservoir of eager-to-learn labor. Ever since, Puerto Rico's economy has been one long, steady success story...
WALTER HALLSTEIN, president of the European Economic Community..LL.D. Luis MUNOZ MARIN, Governor, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico LL.D...
JOHN JAY McCLOY NEIL HOSLER McCLOY ANDREW G. McNAUGHTON HAROLD MEDINA RICHARD K. MELLON PIERRE MENDES-FRANCE GIAN CARLO MENOTTI ETHEL MERMAN PERLE MESTA ROBERT B. MEYNER JOSÉ MIRÓ CARDONA RAYMOND MOLEY JEAN MONNET JAMES MORAN DELESSEPS S. MORRISON CHARLES G. MORTIMER LUIS MUNOZ MAŔIN PATRICE MUNSEL CLINTON MURCHISON JR. JOHN MURCHISON ROBERT D. MURPHY JOHN COURTNEY MURRAY...
Among public figures: Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Adlai Stevenson, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, Averell Harriman, Everett Dirksen, Douglas Dillon, Arthur Goldberg, Luis Munoz Marin, Lucius Clay, Thomas E. Dewey, Henry Cabot Lodge, Norman Thomas, John J. McCloy...
Past lecturers have included Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Luis Munoz Marin, the late Hugh Gaitskell, Chester Bowles, Adlai E. Stevenson, Gen. Lucius Clay, Harold Stassen, Walter Lippmann, and Robert Moses...