Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brooding Luis Muñoz Marin, President of Puerto Rico's Senate, disembarked in Manhattan, looking mournful, as usual. But he was full of hope. If the U.S. Senate confirms his good friend Rexford Guy Tugwell as Governor of Puerto Rico, it will be another milestone in the peaceful, ballot-box revolution which Luis Muñoz Marin started three years...
...Connally's meat, though he has never quite got his teeth in it. He volunteered as an infantryman in 1898, became a sergeant major, was on his way to Puerto Rico when the war ended. His first act when he went to Congress in 1917 was to vote for a declaration of war against Germany. Then he left the House (without resigning) to join the Army. He was a captain at Camp Meade, with overseas orders, when World War I ended. Too old to tote a gun now (he will be 64 this month), Tom Connally...
...Rexford Guy Tugwell, one of the most trusted Brain Trusters of the First New Deal, last week got a new job: chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico. Paradoxically, although it returned him to his original calling as an educator, it looked more like a step toward a political comeback...
...Second New Deal in 1936 to become a businessman (American Molasses Co.). Two years later New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia made him chairman of his City Planning Commission. Last winter Secretary Harold Ickes retrieved him for the Fourth New Deal by sending him to Puerto Rico to study land...
...authority on the problems of Puerto Rico, which he believes the U.S. has shamefully mismanaged, Tugwell is well-liked by Puerto Ricans. In the university chancellorship (salary: $15,000), they gave him the biggest job they had to offer. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico's Governor Guy J. Swope had resigned, and Washington dopesters named Tugwell as his probable successor. Should Tugwell be appointed Governor, he could serve in that office without pay, take a leave of absence from his chancellorship with pay, and thus, though a U.S.-appointed Governor, remain an employe of the Puerto Ricans...