Word: liberia
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Ladies of Liberia...
...lady pictured in your July 4 issue with President Tubman of Liberia is Mrs. Sophia Dunbar Cooper, ex-wife of Liberia's Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce. We are enclosing a photo of Mrs. Tubman...
...Liberia's diplomatic set had gathered at the Executive Mansion to celebrate President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman's election to a third term. They were all watching a home movie about "Uncle Shad" when Dunbar rushed into the darkened hall, leaped to the stage and fired his .38-caliber six-shooter at President Tubman. His first shot missed, and hit a Liberian Congressman in the leg. The second and third shots rang out as two police inspectors rushed the gunman; both were wounded. By this time the assembled dignitaries were scurrying out of the hall. Women in evening...
...against Tubman on the Independent True Whig ticket was an ex-President of Liberia named Edwin Barclay. Last week police surrounded his marble house, but they did not lay a hand on him. After all, his cousin, Antoinette Padmore Tubman, is Liberia's First Lady...
...Richard Lee Jones, 61, to be Ambassador to Liberia. A onetime banker and a business and advertising manager of the Chicago Defender, Jones was for 26 years an executive in Chicago's South Center Department Store. Last year he accepted an appointment as director of the Foreign Operations Administration mission in Liberia. A veteran of both World Wars, Georgia-born Jones became one of the highest ranking Negro Army officers (brigadier general) in World...