Word: rican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government and PRIDC are also trying to expand existing Puerto Rican industries. To help the rum industry recapture part of its $14 million wartime U.S. market (when U.S. drinkers had to buy rum to get a bottle of Scotch), the island government will spend $750,000 this year on advertising and promotion. Then there is the tourist business, which the government hopes will bring the island an annual income of $16 million by 1952. With tourists in mind, PRIDC is putting $5,000,000 into San Juan's new Caribe Hilton Hotel (300 rooms...
...group of U.S. visitors ever to come to Puerto Rico were the 3,415 troops commanded by Major General Nelson A. Miles, who splashed ashore on the beaches at Guanica to end the rule of Spain in 1898. By the peace treaty, Puerto Rico became a U.S. possession. Puerto Ricans have U.S. citizenship; their Resident Commissioner in Washington has a voice in Congress, but no vote. Congress has the right to repeal any act of the Puerto Rican legislature. The right has never been used, but its continued existence irks Puerto Ricans...
...moved back home. Muñoz had hoped that life might be cheaper and more spacious in the land of his birth, but the poverty and slackness that met his eye in San Juan shocked him. He made up his mind in a hurry: "No Puerto Rican has the right to be a literato unless he first does something about conditions in this island...
City & Country. At the time, Muñoz considered himself a Socialist; as early as 1920 he had joined the Puerto Rican Socialist Party which, by & large, was a collection of sincere but ineffective labor reformers. When, to his disgust, its leaders tied themselves up in a coalition with the rival Unionists and the Republicans, Muñoz switched to the new Liberal Party. He worked in it until 1938, when he broke with the party leadership and pulled out, taking many of the most vigorous workers with him. Telling his followers that he was sick of politicos and city...
...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...