Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberian Government learned that President Hoover had cabled to the Emperor of Abyssinia, sovereign of the greatest slave nation of the world, congratulations on his coronation (TIME, Nov. 10), declaring "on behalf of the American People and Government . . . confidence that the traditional ties of friendship and mutual understanding which so happily exist between our two countries . . . will be strengthened during your majesty's reign...
...history of the Republic . . . has rendered more sincere, more unselfish service than the present President of the United States. Rising in the morning at 7 o'clock . . . into his office before 9 o'clock . . . then to lunch . . . and all afternoon chained to his desk like a slave, working for America as he honestly and sincerely believes to be to its interest. "Then to dinner . . . then to bed; and they tell me that even in the night this man, unfaithful to America as some are saying, awakens and works in his bed for an hour or two upon...
...rung of Law, hoping the ladder would lead him to the presidency but his party, first calling itself Federalist, later Whig, was almost always out of power, too often for political expedience, upheld unpopular causes: a U. S. bank, peace with England in 1812, the Missouri Compromise, the Fugitive Slave Law. More, his cold dignity repelled warmhearted U. S. crowds. Thinks Biographer Fuess: "It may be that the American people admire, but have a deep-rooted distrust of orators. His very fluency made them wary. He was a man who talked too much...
Horween has made his mark on Soldiers Field. His teams, it is true, have met with a variance of fortune, but he has clearly demonstrated that a head coach does not necessarily have to be a slave driver, and that in spite of spectacular gate receipts and modern front page publicity, the elements which originally made football a sport for the player can be retained. The sanity which he has shown in the handling of his men has made for a healthier situation on the Harvard field, and he has been a fine influence on intercollegiate football in general...
Liberia was founded in 1819 by the American Colonization Society, which hoped to populate it with freed slaves from America's Southern States. It had little effect on slave conditions in America, however, as slaves were born faster than they could be transported. It is estimated that about 18,858 settled in Liberia due to the efforts of the Colonization Society before the Civil War. At the present time, however, opportunities for negroes are so superior in the United States to those in Liberia that emigration is negligible...