Word: manley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important factor in de-nazification of Austria, he said, should not be police power, but efforts to convince the people that democracy is the best government for them. The speaker was sponsored by the Student Council and introduced by Manley O. Hudson, Bemis Professor of International...
Little is known of the capabilities of the Medford eleven as a fighting unit. Fred Ellis, who replaced veteran coach Lew Manley as mentor of the Jumbos this year, announced recently that he is pointing his charges for each contest as it comes, and it is an open secret around the Hub that a victory over the Crimson would be an especially tasty plum for the Tufts trophy board...
Coffee-colored Bustamante gathered his tough dock workers, bawled out orders (dictated to his common-law wife-secretary): "Handle the strikers with an iron hand." In reply, Norman Washington Manley, leftist leader of the defiant T.U.C., called strikes among prison guards, firemen and railroad workers. Armed mobs of rival unionists prowled the streets. Three men were killed. Bustamante was hit on the head by a brick...
...Manley, a former Rhodes scholar, howled for a Royal investigation and Bustamante's arrest. Adapting Churchill's rhetoric to Jamaican terrain, Manley vowed that his unions would "fight in the streets, lanes and bedrooms." But pistol-toting Bustamante, who seemed to be getting Colonial Office support, chortled: "They'll get no mercy. They struck against the government...
...only serene person in Jamaica was Percival Bennett, a convicted murderer awaiting execution in St. Catherine prison. His sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment, after the hangman had answered Norman Manley's strike call...