Word: manley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. "Although the library has many copies of this book, not one is in a reasonably clean condition. He also said that one student had cut out of the "Philosophical Journals" ten articles. Not to be outdone, another cut out every article on Gerard Manley Hopkins in every journal in Widener...
Still under a British-appointed governor, but with an elected local Assembly running most of the island's affairs, Jamaica has come along fast. The government is now headed by Chief Minister Norman Washington Manley, 62, the West Indies' most successful lawyer before he entered politics in 1938. Under his shrewd eye, Jamaica balances its $60 million annual budget. Money that Britain used to spend to bail the island out of debt is now funneled into "extras" like land development schemes and the newly built University College of the West Indies...
Federation's Future. Chief Minister Manley firmly believes that Jamaica's economy can support the growing demand. He has launched an island-wide land reform program, buying land from big holders and distributing it to peasants. With irrigation projects, expert advice and new crops, he hopes eventually to make Jamaica's 2,000,000 tillable acres prosperously support 2,000,000 people. His slogan: "For every man an acre and for every acre...
...Manley has another aim in making Jamaica a model Caribbean island. A start has already been made toward federation of Britain's Caribbean colonies (TIME, March 5), and Manley, who returned from London last week, envisions the day when all the colonies will be joined in a new British Commonwealth dominion. When that day comes (probably in 1958), Chief Minister Manley wants Jamaica to be the new nation's richest province-and, of course, its logical capital...
Typical of those not entirely pleased was Jamaica's Chief Minister Norman Manley, who at first demanded almost complete and immediate self-government for the new member of the British Commonwealth. But bringing together Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Leeward and Windward Islands, with a population of 3,000,000 spread over 1,000 miles of water, clearly called for some compromise of Manley's demands. So strong was the compromise movement that the delegates even agreed to let a committee of outsiders help choose a capital site...