Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Suddenly a sleek cavalcade of motors drew up before the Hotel de Ville. The crowds burst into "La Brabançonne."† Down from his motor stepped 24-year-old Crown Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, and was wildly cheered upon the official termination of his recent tour of Africa...
Late in the week, Professor Edwin W. Kemmerer, famed Princeton economist, onetime fiscal consultant to the German Reichsbank and to the governments of South Africa, Chile, etc., returned to the U. S. after a two weeks' visit in Poland, whither he had gone at the invitation of the Polish Government and by the request of Dillon, Read & Co. of Manhattan, who have recently dealt largely in Polish government securities...
...Horace Smith, perhaps retired Lt. Col. Horace Mackenzie Smith, D. S. O., fighter in South Africa...
...hotel rooms which will rent for not more than $21 weekly, and on its top (65th) story a hospital. Within it drinking and smoking, and possibly Sunday journals, will be forbidden. Ten percent of its earnings will go to support a medical mission at Lake Victoria Nyanza, in Africa. The builder is a realtor named Oscar E. Konkle. The site is close to those of the Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, International House and the site of the proposed Park Avenue Baptist Church...
...University of Glasgow, as well as president of the Educational Institute of Scotland, and of the British Association, Educational Section. In 1922 Dr. Adams became Emeritus, and since that time has been on a world lecture tour which has included the universities of New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. He has already lectured in several American universities and at present is giving a course in the University of Southern California. Next summer he will return to the Pacific Coast to lecture in the Summer School of the University of California...