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...black, wealthy Charles E. Mitchell of West Virginia State College was at the U. S. State Department last week, conferring with Secretary Henry Lewis Stimson, preparing to sail for Monrovia as President Hoover's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the little black Republic of Liberia...
Result: The resignation of President King and Vice President Yancy of Liberia, leaving as President today former Liberian Secretary of State Edwin Barclay...
...Twin Scourges." Why did Mr. Stimson pick Liberia from the list of lands in which one form or another of slavery still exists?? Plainly because U. S. blacks founded the Republic in 1847, named it "Liberty" (Liberia), named their capital Monrovia, after U. S. President James Monroe...
...commerce. ¶ Confirmed the nominations of Joshua Reuben Clark to be Ambassador to Mexico, of Hoffman Philip to be Minister to Norway, of Nicholas Roosevelt to be Minister to Hungary, of Joshua Butler Wright to be Minister to Uruguay, of Charles Edwin Mitchell to be Minister Resident in Liberia. ¶ Adjourned until...
...expedition crossed Africa from the west coast to the east coast making studies particularly in Liberia and the Belgian Congo. Special chapters are devoted to reptiles and the coast and mountain gorillas. Numbers of new animals were catalogued and necropsies were performed on elephants. Pygmies were encountered in the regions west of Lake Kion. Photographs were taken in profusion, and the book concerning the expedition contains 475 illustrations...