Word: monrovia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Macy's Decorator in Chief Betty Gallagher Ormsby, "everything." That included bedspreads, crystal goblets, hand-cut chandeliers, a merry-go-round, toothpick frills, a steak masticator, a fish refrigerator, a headboard of pale café-au-lait satin for President Tubman's bed. From Monrovia, capital of Africa's only Negro republic, Macy's was flooded by radiograms: "Engraved glassware imperative;" "Ship constitutional range" (that was supposed to mean "institutional," i.e., big enough for a large institution); "ship painted steel butts, delete lavatory hinges...
Liberia's True Whig Party President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman did not hear about the trouble right away. He was busy on one of his frequent trips along the coast.* In Monrovia, Secretary of State Gabriel Dennis regretted the incident, was sure accounts were exaggerated, handsomely offered U.S. armed forces the protection of Liberian armed forces...
...running the field if the U.S. pulled out. Both regard U.S. influence in Liberia with discreet but definite displeasure. The State Department still hopes to get Army funds for keeping up the field. Still greater hopes are pinned on the Navy, which is building port installations at Monrovia...
...Dazzled by the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom he met in wartime, President Tubman wants to give Liberia's lagging political institutions a new deal, has already sponsored such progressive measures as votes for women and an income tax. Ranging far from his capital, Monrovia, Tub man keeps an eye on district commissioners and frontier forces, sometimes sacks them for "malfeasance, misfeasance and unfeasance...
...Monrovia, Calif...