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Thin Victory. In the 1940 election, Muñoz' Populares squeezed out a thin victory. He became Senate president and, in effect, the real ruler of Puerto Rico...
...next year Rex Tugwell was appointed Governor and, teamed with Muñoz, began what became known as Puerto Rico's Little New Deal. Some of the laws behind it were already on the statute books; Tugwell and Muñoz breathed life into them. Among the important agencies that went into operation were the industrial-development and farm-development corporations, and the Puerto Rico Planning, Urbanizing and Zoning Board. The Land Authority tackled the job of enforcing a 40-year-old law limiting holdings of real estate by corporations to 500 acres...
Tugwell and Muñoz also tackled Puerto Rico's desperate need for new housing. In San Juan, for example, handsome, tropical-style homes line many an avenue, but many are close to the dismal slums of packing-box houses like El Fanguito (Little Mudhole) that stretches two miles along the tidal flats. The government's answer was the San José Housing Project, now almost complete, which will provide shelter for 6,200 families from El Fanguito. So far only a few families have been moved out, and officials privately admit that it may be necessary...
Elsewhere the Puerto Rico Housing Authority has 37 housing projects in operation, occupied by 6,140 families. Other projects to be developed in the next two years will provide 8,000 to 10,000 homes. One of the world's biggest private housing projects is under way in the San Juan suburb of Puerto Nuevo, where the Long Construction Co. has finished 3,450 small houses and plans to build 1,400 more...
...desperation, during last year's campaign, some of his opponents even tried the unorthodox (for Puerto Rico) tactic of raking up his private life-Muñoz' first marriage broke up in the late '303, when he fell in love with a former high-school teacher named Inez Maria Mendoza. They have had two children (now 9 and 8), were married two years ago, after Muñoz finally got a divorce. In the election Muñoz got 62% of the total vote...