Word: monrovia
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...correspondents last week Secretary Stimson made clear that he was not fooling, that he and President Hoover are aroused, that U. S. Minister Mitchell goes to Monrovia to make clean a filthy mess...
...black, wealthy Charles E. Mitchell of West Virginia State College was at the U. S. State Department last week, conferring with Secretary Henry Lewis Stimson, preparing to sail for Monrovia as President Hoover's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the little black Republic of Liberia...
...Twin Scourges." Why did Mr. Stimson pick Liberia from the list of lands in which one form or another of slavery still exists?? Plainly because U. S. blacks founded the Republic in 1847, named it "Liberty" (Liberia), named their capital Monrovia, after U. S. President James Monroe...
...filthy is Monrovia that last week the local branch of the Bank of British West Africa closed permanently "because the complete lack of sanitation endangered the lives of employes"; but brave black Minister Mitchell will risk his life gladly...
Sanitation is totally unknown, and the only hospital in Monrovia, the capitol, contained just two patients at the time of the expedition's visit. The practicing physicians in the entire country may be counted on the fingers of one hand and of the country's total expenditures only $18,000 is for the improvement of the people. The bulk is devoted to schools...