Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week an article by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale, calling upon America to "back up the President" and join the World Court was published; today are printed the critical arguments of another Yale professor. Counsel for Permanent Tacna-Africa Arbitration, and a former Assistant Solicitor in the Department of State, Professor Edwin M. Borchard of the Yale Law School analyzes the World Court and attempts to refute the arguments of the proponents of American adherence. The article, published by courtesy of the Yale news, follows...
...Slavery he said dispassionately, had been a good thing for them. It had given them a chance at civilization long before their time, and whatever troubles they might encounter are the price they must pay for the value of premature contact with something better than their primitive condition in Africa...
WHITE CARGO-Highly thermal happenings in Africa when a white man wilts, morally, in the lonely heat and goes native. THE GREEN HAT-Michael Arlen's ingenious artificialities recaptured in a play chiefly important for the performance of Katharine Cornell...
Many a sailor shanghaied at Aden, has been carried round Cape Guardafui, easternmost point of Africa, and down its coast to Zanzibar, without ever knowing that after passing the Cape he sailed for 1,000 miles past the Italian protectorate of Somaliland...
...seventh class of the gymnasium he conceived a plan to flee to America, but when he found how many others were going there, he changes his schemed and for the sake of originality substituted Africa for the western hemisphere. But Nikolai surrendered his dreams of adventure to go to the school of Law in Petrograd, where he soon found an outlet for his instinct for the theatre in the Legal Dramatic Circle. There he appeared in "The Robbers" and 'Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man." There too he produced his first serious musical composition, the opera "The Power of Magic...