Word: mariners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brain-Truster Tugwell, tarnished glamor boy of the New Deal, had a chance in Puerto Rico to make a political comeback. Thanks largely to the good offices of bearish, sad-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin, President of Puerto Rico's Senate, he seemed to be making...
...like many another sincere New Dealer, Rex Tugwell is no impartial statesman. He loves the people to beat hell, and he has a fairly simple blueprint of hell. As Governor of Puerto Rico, greyheaded Rex Tugwell went grayer for the Popular Democratic Party of his friend Muñoz Marin...
...head of the Government's Section of Fine Arts, Artist Bruce, having commissioned many murals and sculptures for Federal buildings, last winter got a chance to put his water color idea to work. Mr. Bruce started with a $6,000 allotment from the Public Buildings Administration, picked the Marine Hospital at Carville, La., where some 400 lepers needed cheering up, and announced a nationwide water color competition. Bruce got together a jury of four well-known U.S. water-colorists (Eliot O'Hara, Charles Burchfield, John Marin, Buk Ulreich) and told them to pick 300 pictures...
When the university's trustees, prompted by Puerto Rico's political leader, Senate President Luis Muñoz Marin, invited Tugwell to be their chancellor (TIME, Aug. 4), hoisting the salary to $15,000 to make the job attractive, everybody seemed happy. Trouble started when President Roosevelt also appointed Tugwell the island's Governor. Tugwell indicated he would take a leave from the chancellorship and let a subordinate run the university until another Governor was found to relieve him. But the students wanted no pinch hitter as chancellor...
Last week Muñoz Marin hurried back from the U.S. to face the 2,000 angry students. For 45 minutes he sweated, pleaded, cajoled, appealing to them in his own name and President Roosevelt's. The students cheered, hissed, chanted, stamped, booed. Muñoz Marin finally gave up and let the students fight it out themselves. Those who wanted Tugwell whole or not at all took command. Four hours later a verdict was reached: let Tugwell resign either the Governorship or the chancellorship...