Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luis Muñoz Marin swept across Puerto Rico like a political hurricane. In two years he organized a new party, beat a coalition of old parties, won control of the territorial government, became president of the Senate. Two weeks ago Muñoz Marin fell ill with severe myositis (in flammation of the muscles). He could not attend Senate sessions - though without him the Senate might be deadlocked. Last week the fear spread in Puerto Rico that the victorious politician might be defeated at the moment of victory...
...last year Luis Muñoz Marin urged Puerto Ricans to distrust all politicians, including himself. There are 786 election districts in Puerto Rico, and he preached that inspiring message in more than 500 of them. Some of these districts are high in the mountains, and he had to travel on foot or by mule to ask the poverty-stricken natives, the jibaros, to vote for him but also to watch him like a hawk. A masterly stump speaker with a square frame and a black mustache which makes him look like an amiable desperado, Muñoz Marin would...
...Marin would be a remarkable figure in any country. In Puerto Rico of 1941 he is unique. Son of a Puerto Rican hero, he spent most of his life in the U. S., learned English on New York City streets. He also acquired a sardonic, down-to-earth way of looking at things. Consequently he became the rarest type of reformer, coupling a taxi driver's view of human nature with his idealism. Muñoz Marin studied at Georgetown University, wrote for the Baltimore Sun, The Nation and Henry Louis Mencken's old Smart Set magazine, sold...
...Trespassing" signs on eleven islands and one bay in the Pacific, Alaska and Caribbean defense areas. After May 14, Culebra Island, off Puerto Rico; Guam, Rose and Tutuila Islands in Samoa; Palmyra, Johnston, Midway, Wake Islands and Kingman Reef (stepping stones between Honolulu's Pearl Harbor and the Philippines); Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii; Kiska and Unalaska Islands, off Alaska, will be forbidden ground to all but U. S. armed forces...
...When Puerto Ricans celebrated his induction into office, stocky. Pennsylvania Dutch Governor Guy J. Swope decreed no congas or rumbas at the reception in the ancient La Fortaleza-nothing more venturesome than a waltz. Reason: WPAsters readying the floors for the occasion had put on such a high polish that a pre-inaugural visitor slipped and broke...