Word: rican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, prowlers crept up to the $45,000 summer home recently built by Adam Clayton Powell, the Harlem Congressman, whose second wife is a pretty Puerto Rican who has been on the Government payroll as his secretary. Powell was off in Washington. Inside the villa, 25 miles from San Juan, Wife Ivette was home alone with six-week-old Adam Diago and a maid. Suddenly there were cries of "Viva free Puerto Rico!", and a barrage of rocks hit the house. For an hour the men banged at the front door before giving...
...Puerto Rico's Nationalist movement, which agitates for violent revolt to win independence for the tiny U.S. island commonwealth. A few weeks ago, Congressman Powell roused their anger by speeches in Puerto Rico favoring statehood for the island, and by advocating the wider use of English in Puerto Rican public schools, which are supported in part by U.S. funds and are taught in Spanish. The day before the rock attack, about a hundred nationalists picketed Powell's house with signs saying "Go Home Adam...
...sensibly turned to the neighboring U.S. island Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which speaks the same language and has plenty of economic experience. Governor Luis Muñoz Marin sent his experts to draw plans for a Dominican Industrial Development Corp., capitalized with $41 million in seized Trujillo assets. Puerto Rican specialists drafted a Dominican income tax law hiking levies on the rich, designed an agrarian reform law under which the Council is already distributing land, planned the country's first housing authority, which hopes to help finance 20,000 low-cost homes in the next twelve months...
...built up a tidy real estate and transportation empire. This week he launches a publishing chain. Last March Chalk paid $850,000 for an 80% interest in El Diario de Nueva York (circ. 68,000), the largest Spanish newspaper in a city that now has 650,000 Puerto Rican inhabitants. This week he takes over the city's only other Spanish daily, La Prensa (circ. 33,000). To house them he is set to buy the Lower Manhattan building and presses of the venerable Journal of Commerce...
Shortly after World War I, the old families began to move to newer suburbs. At first the neighborhood became predominantly Irish Catholic; then Italians came; then Negro and Puerto Rican families moved in. St. John's made little effort to approach these potential new parishioners. By 1960, when Castle became rector, the church had only one Sunday service; attendance rarely reached 100. Six days out of seven, the church and parish hall were locked to keep out intruders...