Word: monrovia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world changed color and shape for the stupefied Masons. To their house in the slums of South Philadelphia rushed well-wishers, curiosity-seekers, oil-well and gold-mine promoters. Police had to rope off their street. A man in Liberia wanted them to finance a bus line from Monrovia to the jungle. "All I ever wanted was my own home," Pearl shakily said...
Died. Arthur Barclay, 86, onetime (1904-12) President of the Republic of Liberia, uncle of current President Edwin J. Barclay; in Monrovia...
Tuberculosis, Asthma, Colds. Extracts of the adrenal glands, chief exhilarators of the human system, prevent tuberculosis, cure asthma and common colds, Dr. Francis Marion Pottenger of Monrovia, Calif. reported. But, an asthmatic child needs the extract from five to 20 steers for a single month's treatment, an asthmatic adult the extract from 20 to 30 steers. For lack of steers, Dr. Pottenger begged chemists to hurry invention of synthetic adrenal hormones...
...admit that there are many things in Liberia that demand improvement?that Monrovia is still primitive without a water supply, sewage disposal, pavements or telephones, and that the few and dim electric lights only emphasize the darkness of the tropic night. I had no sympathy with, and in fact publicly criticized, the action of Liberia in regard to a just debt but that matter has now been straightened out. It is also true that there is but one semblance of a road in the Republic, outside the Firestone plantation, but the Government is now building a thoroughfare through the interior...
...multitude of U. S. Negroes, the President last week named a Minister to Liberia, which his State Department recently recognized (TIME, June 24). His choice: Lester A. Walton, 54, newshawk of his father-in-law's New York Age, formerly writer for the defunct New York World. He visited Monrovia two years ago, was presented with a leopard skin by Liberia's President Barclay, attended sessions of the International Liberian Com-mission at Geneva. Clean shaven, bald, a modest family man, he will now return to Liberia taking his wife and two d�butante daughters, 20 & 21. Said the Baltimore...