Word: shadrach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiery Furnace. In Buffalo, Shadrach Abednego, trapped in a gas explosion, died of burns...
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...
When President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman wanted his Executive Mansion refurbished for last week's 100th anniversary of Liberian independence, he applied to a Manhattan department store, R. H. Macy's. "We went and got," 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...
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...
...noon, dapper, coal-black President-elect William Vacarat Shadrach Tubman took over from President Roosevelt's onetime host and guest, Edwin J. Barclay (TIME, June 7). Then the new President knelt to ask the blessing of God upon his people. His lazy drawl poured out over the multitude, reminding all that Liberia had been founded under God and on Christian principles...