Word: african
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Baden-Powell: "While South African Boy Scouts were acclaiming me at Johannesburg, Transvaal, last week, as the founder of their movement, I collapsed. Said Lady Baden-Powell to newsgatherers: 'Sir Robert is just worn out. There is nothing organically wrong with...
...distant from foreign naval threats, did not touch upon what his taxpayers might be willing to contribute to Empire defenses. General Hertzog was undoubtedly preoccupied instead last week, with the news that one of his chief "Nationalist" political henchmen, Dan Goetzee, had bolted to the Opposition, or loyalist "South African Party" of onetime (1919-24) South African Premier General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Bolter Goetzee, ever a law unto himself, added insult to injury by proclaiming that Premier Hertzog is taking the wrong tack at London by hinting at "secession" and will find his Cabinet threatened on his return to Cape...
Last week, two giraffes gazed mournfully down upon Boston. It was not enough that an ocean and most of a continent lay between them and their clover-clad African home; not enough that they had been rolled and tossed in a creaking steel ark over thousands of watery miles. But now they were suspicious characters. They had been sequestered until Government veterinarians could be sure they did not harbor anthrax bacteria. Nearby were 15 African antelopes and four African wart hogs, similarly sequestered, suspect...
Meantime, the steel ark's Noah, Dr. William M. Mann, proceeded from Boston to the National Zoological Park at Washington, which he superintends, with some 1,700 other African creatures loaded on eight trucks, and ushered all safely into permanent captivity. It was the end of the largest live-animal-collecting expedition of modern times, which all started when Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler (automobiles) heard that Washington urchins lamented the lack of giraffes, zebras and "rhinoc'ruses" in the nation's zoo (TiME, March...
...Helser M. A., a noted African missionary, will speak at Phillips Brooks Hense at 4.30 o'clock Friday afternoon. "Why Missions" is the subject for Mr. Helser's talk. The meeting will be informal and will have an interval for discussion after the lecture...