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Folklore: The Enduring Legacy of Margaret Kilgallen
doyle.comTydings could sponsor a bill allowing Puerto Rico to elect her own governor, and Riggs could ensure that Albizu got the job. In exchange, Albizu would back down and let Riggs take care of the strike. If Albizu refused the deal, Riggs would take the offer to Muñoz Marín. Albizu rose slowly, thanked Riggs for lunch, and told him Puerto Rico was not
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His job was to persuade the US Congress to exempt Puerto Rico from the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act.
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
fact, a poet named Luis Muñoz Marín sailed in from Greenwich Village and took the very seat that Albizu had worked for. Despite all the speeches, conferences, debates, campaigns, editorial columns, and lawsuits, the United States was not taking Albizu or his Nationalist Party very seriously. Everything changed with the sugar cane strike of 1934.
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