Word: manley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something had to be done, and London hopefully sent constitutional reforms for Jamaica's consideration (TIME, Feb. 22). To demonstrate political unity, Jamaica's Governor Sir Arthur Richards publicly shook hands with Norman Washington Manley, democratic, popular Irish-Negro leader of the People's National Party, one time Rhodes Scholar and personal friend of Sir Stafford Cripps. W. A. Domingo, a Negro labor leader, was released from the detention camp where he had been held without hearing for 18 months. Also out of jail was the rambunctious labor demagogue Alexander Bustamante. Governor Richards announced an expansion...
...Manley's People's National Party campaigned vigorously for self-government, shorter hours and better working conditions. Thousands of signatures were obtained for a resolution: "We do now with one heart and voice demand a form of government freely elected by all the people, responsible to us and free to carry out effectively the policies that will make our country a better place...
...constitution itself was important as an expression of a new and more enlightened British colonial pol icy. Some English on the island thought last week that the constitution might eliminate "experienced legislators" and produce a "working-class landslide." But Governor Richards seemed unworried about the possibility. Norman Manley, who works as hard for unity as he works for freedom, hopefully declared his confidence "in the good sense of the public...
...League of Nations and the Post-War World: II. Judge Manley O. Hudson, Chairman, Miss Sarah Wambaugh, Roland Hall Sharp, Hans Kohn. New Lecture Hall, 8 o'clock...
...evening session at 8 o'clock will be under the chairmanship of Manley O. Hudson, first American World Court member. Miss Sarah Wambaugh, writer and lecturer, will talk on: "Why the League Failed." Next, Roland Hall Sharp, newspaper correspondent on Latin American affairs, speaks on "The Americas and the Post-War League...