Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George W. Harley, research associate in Anthropology, recently reported the results of 12 years spent in Liberia studying the ancient and mystic religious rites of the African natives...
...Armand Denis (Goona-Goona), and his wife, Leila Roosevelt, undertook a $150,000 expedition to the Belgian Congo. Purposes: to make a motion picture survey of certain parts of the country for Belgian Congo's National Park Institute; to take sound film material suitable for use in an African movie. Explorer Denis, his wife, cameramen, and Pooka, a cat (which survived sand storms and a fight with a leopard, only to be run over later on a quiet New England country road) pushed their way through jungles and over mountains never before seen by the cinecamera...
...Partners." Leaks disclosed that Halifax reported the Nazis demanding in the way of colonies that Britain and France yield "only" Togoland and the Cameroons-these being nearly worthless African territories-but that Belgium and Portugal should be forced to yield their long held rich Congo and Angola to a chartered company in which they would be "partners" with Germany, which would own the controlling interest. Hitler, in return for the above concessions, would bind Germany never to attempt to repossess the more valuable once-German colonies now held as mandates by the United Kingdom, France, the Dominions, and Japan...
...worked in a blacksmith's shop to familiarize himself with metals, but his favorite materials are wood and stone which he frequently picks up on motor trips to Connecticut. Ferber has been working for only six years but has already been through four great influences in that period: African, Egyptian, Mexican and Lachaise. Best whittling: The Wrestlers, in mahogany, and Worker, in lignum-vitae. Best stone work: Cat, from a cobblestone...
...visits to Rhodesian and South African jamborees, Chief Boy Scout Robert Stephenson Smyth, Baron Baden-Powell, 80, declared: "It is either going to kill or cure me. I don't mind which it is, so long as I can carry through my work...