Word: lynden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bahamas, and the procession of straw-hatted dancers snaked through the back streets of Nassau, holding hands and twirling to drums and blaring horns mounted on trucks. To wildly different tunes, they all sang the same campaign lyrics: "All the way! All the way!" The same day, Premier Lynden O. Pindling, 38, strolled into a new suburban school that his government had built on neighboring Andros Island, and cast his vote. "I think a win is sure," he said as he popped into his car. Then he popped back out again and, in mock alarm, asked...
Double Trouble. Whatever they were, the consulting paradise ended, at least temporarily, when the Negro-dominated Progressive Liberal Party won control of the Bahamian House of Assembly last January. As one of his first acts, Negro Premier Lynden Pindling asked Queen Elizabeth to appoint a royal commission to delve into his campaign charge that government leaders had accepted questionable fees and that U.S. crime-syndicate members were taking over the casinos. Soon after, Pindling announced that three fugitive Americans, wanted on tax evasion and bookmaking indictments, who were forced out as managers of one of Groves's Grand Bahama...
...first parliamentary elections since Britain conferred "limited" independence on them in 1964, the Negro-dominated Progressive Liberal Party and the United Bahamian Party tied with 18 seats each in the 38-seat House of Assembly. To get a parliamentary majority and topple the Boys from power, P.L.P. Leader Lynden Pindling, 36, a Negro lawyer from New Providence Island, wooed to his side the House's two other new members-a white independent, and a Negro laborite. At week's end, after Premier Sir Roland Symonette resigned, Pindling was invited by Governor Sir Ralph Grey to form...
...Negro Progressive Liberal Party, whose membership includes one man who campaigned in last year's general election on a promise to distribute the Royal Bank of Canada's money among his supporters. But the P.L.P.'s reins are firmly in the hands of capable Lynden O. Pindling, 33, a London-educated lawyer whose main disagreement with the United Bahamian Party is over taxes. Pindling feels that the rich could contribute a bit more through stricter collection of property taxes or even a business tax. But he is not about to advocate an income tax. After...
...there's no Angostura," said Tom bitterly-Lynden Keating, Los Angeles...