Word: monrovia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monrovia, Calif...
Married. William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 52, dapper, coal-black President of the Liberian Republic; and Antoinette Padmore, thirtyish, granddaughter of Liberian ex-President Arthur Barclay and cousin of Tubman's predecessor, Edwin Barclay; he for the third time, she for the first; in Monrovia, Liberia...
...Monrovia, Calif...
Barefoot Cops. During its first 100 years, Liberia has been bypassed by history. Macy's steak masticator is chomping away in a country which has no sewage system, no railroads, few wheels. Monrovia is a town whose policemen go barefoot and whose telephone poles are constantly devoured by insects. Until recently, Monrovia had no proper docking facilities; visitors were carried ashore in sedan-like contraptions called mammy-chairs...
Last week, Monrovia was flag-decked and floodlit as it embarked, with prayer and fireworks, on three weeks of fortissimo festivities. The era of the mammy-chair formally drew to a close; the U.S. made Liberia a birthday gift of a brand-new, $18,000,000 port (a miracle financed by Lend-Lease funds...