Word: tubman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman soccer team won its opening game yesterday, defeating Exeter, 5 to 0. Led by Shad Tubman, Coach Andrew Guida's team was never in danger after the initial goal in the first 55 seconds of the game...
...turn our eyes outside Europe and America for once. There are other continents . . . containing great leaders ... I nominate William Vacanarat Shradrach Tubman, 18th President of Liberia . . . For ten years he has worked quietly to build his country and give it spiritual and moral leadership...
Black & White. The object of this unaccustomed British deference is a 43-year-old bachelor who likes to say: "Every woman in the Gold Coast is my bride." Last week he was paying a state visit to Liberia's President Tubman (see NEWS IN PICTURES...
...that point, President Tubman's political machine started whirring angrily, softened up opposition politicos as efficiently as President Tubman's other gadget tenderizes a tenderloin. By the time Liberia's 200,000 voters trooped to the polls last fortnight, the contest had been settled privately. Twe and all other opposition candidates had withdrawn their names from the ballot. Tubman was in for another four years...
...fusion party decided to upset the Whig pork barrel. The fusionists chose as their champion a sixtyish, reform-minded Kru tribesman named Dihdwo Twe (pronounced Daydaw Tooey), who at the age of 15 had hitchhiked his way to an education in the U.S. and friendship with Mark Twain. Tubman, although he has more than a political grudge against his opponent-Twe is married to Tubman's ex-wife-did not interfere with Twe's campaign. For a while it looked as if Liberia might have a real election. Twe did so well that even Whig party officials began...