Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Luis ("El Vate") Muñoz Marin, 48, broody-eyed President of Puerto Rico's Senate, founder and guiding spirit of the Popular Democratic Party, political hero of the poverty-stricken jibaros (hill people); by Muna Lee, 51, Mississippi-born poetess after 27 years of marriage, two children; in San Juan...
...power to revise the company's 50-year exemption from new taxation. But his bold speechifying had an immediate effect: next day the strike was suspended; United Fruit agreed to rehire hundreds of discharged workers and ordered its ships to resume their calls at the Caribbean port of Puerto Barrios...
...core of Manhattan's sprawling 18th Congressional District is a verminous, crime-ridden slum called East Harlem. Its hordes of Italians, Puerto Ricans, Jews and Negroes have traditionally voted Republican. But in the last decade a new force came into power: the patchwork patronage machine of shrill, stooped, angry-eyed, pro-Communist Representative Vito...
...last year Bridges was ready to demand a contract for the sugar workers, who had always been at or near the bottom of the economic pile. Imported by the thousands as indentured laborers from China, Japan, Portugal, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, they had once lived in virtual peonage...
...delve in liquid imports from P. R. (That's Puerto Rico...