Word: tubman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...That Man." World War II brought changes. The U.S. established an airport (Roberts Field, now not in use) and a seaplane base at Fisherman's Lake.* President Tubman, an energetic, intelligent lawyer, now works tirelessly to carry out social and technological reforms. He champions the natives against the frock-coated, white-helmeted elite of Americo-Liberians, to whom he is known as "That Man in the Executive Mansion...
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...
...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...
...Played host to such distinguished foreign visitors as Madame Chiang Kaishek. Winston Churchil. Liberia's President Edwin Barclay and President-elect W.V.S. Tubman...