Word: liberia
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...Harvey S. Firestone and his son, Harvey S. Jr., Akron (Ohio) rubbermen, had luncheon at the White House; told the President about their 30,000-acre rubber farm in the Negro Republic of Liberia...
Harvard Square is more dangerous than the wilds of Liberia", stated Dr. G. M. Allen '01, professor of zoology and curator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at the University in an interview with a Crimson reporter. Dr. Allen recently returned from Liberia where he spent four months as a member of the expedition headed by Dr. R. P. Strong '16 of the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Allen is the only member of the expedition which left last May, who has yet returned. The other members of the party are making their way across the continent...
...common sense," continued Dr. Allen. "It was however quite difficult to get around. We had to do all our travelling on foot over the narrow rough paths which wind through the dense tropical forests. There are little villages mere clusters of straw huts scattered throughout the interior of Liberia. Our native porters did not want to leave their own villages too far behind so we had to hire a different set of servants at almost every town...
...were fortunate enough to be there during the wet season. The average annual rainfall in the western part of Liberia is 150 inches; you can well imagine what a thick tropical forest is like after these rains...
Humanitarians have often rebuked the U. S. for its lack of encouragement to the Free and Independent Republic of Liberia, constituted in 1847 on the West coast of Africa, especially to make provision for freed U. S. slaves. The President of Liberia is of American descent. The Constitution, Legislation, Executive and Judicature of Liberia almost duplicate the U. S. pattern. Two million Negroes dwell there upon an area as large as Pennsylvania...