Word: barclay
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...President and Members of the Senate," said President Edwin Barclay in a soft, almost silken voice, "I wish to express to you my high appreciation of the courtesy shown me in permitting me to observe for a few moments the processes of lawmaking in the United States...
...Czecho-SIovakia's Eduard Benes is due this week, President Edwin Barclay and President-elect William V. S. Tubman of Liberia late this month...
Next day two four-motored planes of the Army Air Force Transport Command carried the President and his party 2,000 miles to Liberia, only republic in Africa, founded in 1822 as a colony for freed U.S. slaves. There Franklin Roosevelt lunched with chocolate-hued President Edwin James Barclay, toured part of the million-acre Firestone rubber plantation, rode with his Liberian confrere in a jeep to review U.S. Negro troops...
...real debate, however, was whether affable Edwin Barclay, President for the past 13 years, would leave the Executive Mansion "by the backway drive."* Liberia's new Constitution says the President may not succeed himself. But in times like these, the President's supporters, taking their cue from the great paternal democracy across the Atlantic, were beginning to call able Edwin Barclay indispensable, were talking about Term III and changing the Constitution to make it possible...
...kept an official secret until last week, when the State Department revealed that Liberia had last spring signed a pact giving the U.S. jurisdiction over her airports and military installations until the war against tyrannical dictators is over. Said Liberia's 60-year-old President Edwin J. Barclay, echoing the words of Napoleon Edward Taylor: "Ours is a historical friendship...