Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speakers, no one could tell whether the majority of the audience was there to "strike" for peace or to heckle. As the meeting got under way, however, the speakers received close attention, despite a one-man rowdy section led by Robert J. Donahue '44, of Massachusetts Hall and Jamaica Plain...
...notes signed in London by plenipotentiaries of the U. S. and Great Britain. The agreement formalized the lease to the U. S. of sites for naval and air bases in Newfoundland (six pieces of land, one of them 2,610 acres); Bermuda (five parcels of land, totaling 545 acres); Jamaica (six areas of land and water, totaling 55 sq. mi. and 275 acres); St. Lucia (more than 1,255 acres); Antigua (1.4 sq. mi. and 430 acres); Trinidad (one area of 18 sq. mi., one of 12, one of 2 and one of 96 acres); British Guiana (one area...
SPEAK NO EVIL-Mignon G. Eberhart-Random House ($2). Married to a rich drunkard, Elizabeth Dakin nearly hangs for his shooting in their Jamaica, B. W. I. villa. Two other men want her, two other women don't. Add a slobbering male secretary and you have a hot time at old Montego...
...knows the importance of the Mediterranean. If a bitter enemy to the U. S. controlled the narrow waters off Florida with a terrible stronghold where Havana's feeble old Morro Castle now stands, if this enemy also sat astraddle the Panama Canal and had bases at Trinidad, Jamaica and Tampico, U. S. citizens would probably be alarmed. But the Gulf Stream is not in the U. S. bloodstream. Although perhaps there should be, there is no U. S. tradition of responsibility for the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico comparable to the innate, hereditary British concern...
Today Meharry has 277 undergraduates (including 40 women). Students come mostly from Tennessee and Texas, occasionally from Trinidad, Jamaica, Liberia...