Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Protesting loudly, Mboya demanded that other parties be similarly restricted. But Kenya's white rulers pointed to a 1956 emergency decree prohibiting formation of any all-African group that was not confined to a single district or administrative area. Talking darkly of plans to push ahead with his new party in legally disguised forms, Tom Mboya cut to the heart of the issue with the question: Why was it only Africans who were prohibited from organizing on a colony-wide basis? Said he: "We wait to see what action the government now takes against the Indian Congress, the Moslem...
...suits cut on Savile Row lines, will riot over an increase in the cost of living-but not over the fall of an elected government. Cynical corruption wrecked the middle-class Radicals' one chance in power (1916-30), and the disgusted army sent General Jose Uriburu, astride a white charger and backed by 10,000 troops, to take over the presidential residence, the Casa Rosada. The brass has never been out of politics since...
...Dutch destroyer Gelderland, transferred a special passenger: plumply pretty Princess Beatrix, 21, heiress presumptive to the throne of The Netherlands. Under cloudbursts of ticker tape, she was driven up lower Broadway, incidentally passing over the site where marooned Dutch sailors spent the winter of 1613 as the first white inhabitants of Manhattan. In the U.S. for ten days, the princess would lunch with President Eisenhower in Washington, but would spend much of her time in the Hudson River Valley, helping to commemorate the 350th anniversary of its exploration by the Dutch captain of The Half Moon...
...white feather hat and a gleaming brocade coat, Britain's Dame Edith Sitwell, 72, gave a poetry recital at Edinburgh. Part of the audience could not make out what she was saying; someone politely said so. "Get a hearing aid." said Dame Edith, "I am not going to shout." Someone else complained that her notes were obscuring her face. "You won't like it if you do see it," she promised. Who did she think she was? "The reason I am thought eccentric is that I won't be taught my job by a lot of pipsqueaks...
...crisis came on the sleek, white, 322-ft. yacht of Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 53. Onassis, too, was a man who knew the value of money. Starting as a night telephone operator in Buenos Aires, he had taken shrewd advantage of a wave of deflation to build one of the world's largest tanker fleets and accumulate a fortune of about $300 million. Love brought him more money in the shape of Athina (Tina) Livanos, beautiful daughter of Millionaire Shipping Czar Stavros Livanos and sister-in-law of Millionaire Shipping Czar Stavros Niarchos. The glow of the Onassis...