Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grudgingly, the government replied with the Lennox-Boyd plan, which would give Negroes six more elective seats and add twelve more councilors, equally divided between Europeans, Negroes and Asians. But this concession did not appease the Africans. Tom Mboya could not block the election, but he did the next best thing. He had six "rejector" candidates enter their names, and each was pledged, if elected, to oppose the constitution. Last week Africans trooped to the polls and elected all six rejectors...
...London the first reaction was: "He's mad-stark, staring mad." Mintoff's next move was to fire off a cable to Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd proposing a "truce," and urging that British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan intervene with the Admiralty to get the dockyard firings canceled. A day later came news that the firings had been cut from 40 to 30, and that alternative jobs would be offered all 30 discharged workmen...
British Jib. Mintoff had won his point, but his tactics had aroused cold hostility in British officialdom. From the start, Britain had jibbed at Mintoff's costly economic conditions for integration. In a 1,000-word cable Lennox-Boyd bluntly warned the Maltese leader that he had "recklessly hazarded" the whole integration plan. Snapped the London Economist, hitherto a cautious partisan of integration: "Let Mr. Mintoff be left in no doubt that he is demanding from Britain too high a price for something that Britain does not much want...
...Kenya, the British abandoned their months-long attempt to bring Africans into a liberalized colonial government. The natives held out for increased representation, refused to compromise. In no mood to retreat further, Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd declared coldly that British control of Kenya will continue "for a very long time...
...that the once-hated Taft-Hartley Act gives them a right to complain to the Government against unfair pushing around by their own union bosses as well as their employers. In a speech to a gathering of labor lawyers last week, the National Labor Relations Board's Chairman Boyd Leedom reported that, of the unfair-labor-practice cases handled by NLRB during the past year, individual workers filed 37% of the 3,522 charges against management, and a remarkable 46% of the 1,743 charges against unions...