Word: grantley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barbados, 166 sq. mi. of sugar cane jampacked with 228,000 people, a population of 1,475 to the square mile. Led by stolid, dour Prime Minister Grantley Adams, 58, a onetime Socialist militant who softened in office. Barbados is the loyal "little Britain" of the islands...
...once they had gathered, island leaders tacitly agreed that federation-which amounts to making a British dominion out of Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and the Windward and Leeward Islands-would be meaningless if the bars stayed up. The islands' elder statesman, Barbados' Premier Grantley Herbert Adams, set forth the case for free movement, Trinidadian Labor Minister Albert Gomes offered concessions, and Jamaican Chief Minister Norman Washington Manley soon brought them into agreement...
...most cases, the visitor's experience would have caused little stir. But the Negro was Grantley Adams, Premier of the British colony of Barbados and a staunch promoter of Canada-West Indies trade. When an airline official discovered next day that the Premier had been shunted to a second-rate hotel, he promptly reported the incident to the Ottawa government. Windsor Hotel officials hotly denied that any discrimination had been involved; the management insisted that there had really been "a lack of room." But the government seemed more inclined to accept Premier Adams' interpretation of the incident. Last...
Pride & Prejudice. Tough, affable Grantley Russell, son of a hall porter but now a well-to-do engineer, regards Guiana's caste system with a mocking grin. The only Englishman in the book, he can afford to be tolerant, promiscuous, and amused by the battle of the pigments. "Goo-goo, my high-color belle," he cries, tossing his little daughter Sylvia to the ceiling. "Where do you come into the picture? What's your rating?" Ostracized in her bedroom, shiftless mother Russell sits interminably over her Singer sewing machine and gossips with her "dark" friends about the latest...
Divorced. By William Waldorf Astor, 45, the third Viscount Astor (eldest son of Nancy and the late Viscount Astor) and Tory member of Parliament: Sarah Norton Astor, 32, daughter of Lord Grantley, British movie magnate; after eight years of marriage, one son; in London...