Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program. On rural electrification, slum clearance, irrigation, new roads and port facilities, $304,000,000 will be spent. The production tax will be modified and free ports for transit trade have been established. Also authorized by decree were defense loans up to $5,500,000 for France's African colonies, to $11,000,000 for French Indo-China. Minister of Colonies Georges Mandel explained these loans will be used toward starting a "systematic Empire defense plan...
Tranga Man, Fine Gah (Sat. 7:30 p.m., CBS). Columbia's Workshop presents West-Coast-African tribal drummers and dancers in their first radio drama...
...begin her two-year plan of air force rearmament with the purchase of 100 fast Curtiss pursuit planes, ordered in the U. S. last week. And the general staff last week ordered the recruiting of an additional 60,000 native troops in Tunisia, thus bringing France's North African army to a total of 180,000: 1 20,000 natives, and 60,000 Frenchmen...
With the approach of the general elections, South African hoardings have recently been decked with posters depicting a white woman, a native husband and colored children. The antiSemitic, anti-native, anti-British, pro-Nazi Nationalist Party had designed the poster as a "horrible example" of what would happen if Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog's and Deputy Prime Minister Jan Smuts's United Party Government were continued in office. Left unmentioned was the fact that custom prevents miscegenation in the Union of South Africa and between 1932 and 1936 records show that not one white woman...
...nothing better than sailing his yacht in the Indian Ocean and going to London now & then, came to his senses some time ago. But the English association was stubborn. Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub knew well that in a few more months his Sultanate would go through the East African equivalent of 776 and he might do little or no yachting. Finally, last week, news came from Zanzibar that an agreement had been signed, Indian pickets could relax. From now on the English association's monopoly will govern only half the trade in Zanzibar cloves...