Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Game Hunter Osa Johnson announced that she will take along her mother, frail, silver-haired Mrs. Belle Lieghty, 73, of Chanute, Kans., on her next hunting trip into the wilds of Africa early in 1950. Their goal: bagging a gorilla to take the place of famed Gargantua, who died last month in Florida...
Moors-John P. Elder, Classics; Myron P. Gilmore, History; Albert J. Guerard, English; Burrhus F. Skinner, Psychology; and Bart J. Bok, Astronomy, (Bok, who is leaving for South Africa in February, accepted for the next school year...
Fletcher Cooke discussed the achievement of self-government in large portions of Asia and Africa, the present and past colonial policy of Great Britain, and aspects of the UN decisions on trusteeships and non-self-governing colonies...
...talk, Fletcher-Cooke will discuss developments in the Far East and Africa as well as possible results of the admission of newly liberated peoples into the United Nations...
...plea for basic human rights which must belong to black as well as white, lest all Africa be driven in time toward a racial holocaust. He quoted Herero tribesmen who dreaded annexation by South Africa: "We shall be destroyed if we are incorporated." The natives preferred "the shadow of the British Crown" to the shades of South African apartheid. Respectfully, they begged for further U.N. hearings or a U.N. inquiry, and for the transfer of South West Africa to U.N. trusteeship...