Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again, in again. That was the political gymnastic performed last week by gruff, choleric General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, His Majesty's Prime Minister in The Union of South Africa...
...Governor-General of the Union of South Africa is the Earl of Athene, brother of Queen-Empress Mary. When General Hertzog marched in with the collective resignation of the Cabinet, Her Majesty's brother saw to it that he marched right out again with a mandate to form a new Cabinet. This the General instantly did, appointing the Rt. Hon. H. W. Sampson to be Minister of Posts & Telegraphs, and recalling all his other ministers to their posts. Unofficially the peppery Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction that the Laborites have now come out squarely on the issue of social...
...reasons not mentioned by perfunctory Portuguese correspondents, last week, Prime Minister Vicente Freitas resigned with his whole Cabinet and then reconstituted it, as he does every now and then.* Usually this commonplace political trick is turned when it is desired to oust some objectionable minister or ministers (see South Africa...
...Marcus Garvey, president-general of the Universal Negro Improvement Association ("back to Africa" movement; alleged membership, 4,000,000), who was deported by the U. S. last year, called from Quebec upon all his U. S. followers to vote for Smith...
Lions. In Dodoma, Tanganyika, Africa, the Duke of Gloucester, the third son of the king of England, with a perfect shot which brought the beast dead at his feet at the end of her interrupted spring, killed his first lioness last fortnight...