Word: lynden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned out to be mostly ballyhoo and bluster. During an investigation of crime on Wall Street, he was much embarrassed by trumpeting a shady witness's wild charge, backed up by no evidence, that Elliott Roosevelt, son of President Franklin Roosevelt, had plotted the assassination of Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling of the Bahamas. Last year he recklessly called executives of the major oil companies before the subcommittee and harshly accused them of jacking up prices and making extortionate profits from the energy crisis. The oilmen argued that the high earnings were for only one year, came after several...
...some fresh evidence on the debit side -at least in form. The substance was still obscure. During hearings by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, headed by Senator Henry M. Jackson, Elliott Roosevelt, 63, the second son of President Franklin Roosevelt, was accused of plotting the assassination of Lynden O. Pindling, Prime Minister of the Bahamas...
...also suitably devoid, for the time being at least, of the problems that are driving businesses out of the Bahamas. The black nationalist government of Prime Minister Lynden Pindling, which recently negotiated an agreement for full independence from Britain next July, is foundering financially, largely because of a severe drop in tourist revenues. Rumors abound that banks and trust operations, which make up the Bahamas' second largest industry, will be forced to bail out the islands by buying long-term government bonds. Pindling has denied any such plans, but investors are worried because of the atmosphere of heightening black...
...Bravo for Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling [Oct. 19], who has the guts to try to preserve the Bahamas from the pending ecological disaster that we "progressive" nations have ignorantly overdeveloped for ourselves and our world...
...translates into rude or grudging service from hotel and restaurant employees. "All the visitor wants is a quiet vacation on the beach with a drink in his hand," a top hotel executive told TIME Correspondent Roger Beardwood. "Instead, he finds himself in on a black power situation." Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling admits that tourist receptions in the Bahamas are less friendly than they used to be, but blames that on the gambling casinos. They have brought in a new and arrogant clientele, he says, that "rubs Bahamians the wrong...