Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...December, 1958, in the name of Attorney General Edward F. McCormack, Jr., who is responsible for public trusts, charges Harvard with failure to discharge its duties as sole Trustee of the Arboretum. The dispute arose when books and plants were removed from the grounds of the institution in Jamaica Plain, to a new, University-owned building in Cambridge...
...University's position is that the trust has not been violated, because the transfer and subsequent reorganization of the facilities at Jamaica Plain are in "the best interests of the Arboretum...
This was the same old adulterant that, added by U.S. bootleggers to their "Jamaica Jake" (a drink made with tincture of ginger), caused something like 20,000 paralysis cases in Prohibition days in Ohio, Kansas and other Midwest and Southern states. About the only good thing to say for the stuff is that it is almost never fatal...
...role that the U.S. has quietly begun to play in the hitherto chaotic affairs of Haiti. President François Duvalier invited the U.S. in. Caught between two strong-arm neighbors -Cuba's Fidel Castro and the Dominican Republic's Rafael Truiillo-Duvalier talked enviously of "Jamaica and Puerto Rico, whose political destinies are stabilized by larger countries." The President frankly described his own bureaucracy as "incompetent...
Robert G. Dodge, attorney for the Arboretum, countered, however, that the University had directly violated the trust by ignoring its stipulation that all activities connected with the Arboretum be carried on in Jamaica Plain...