Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, a new granite wing to the American Museum of Natural History opposite Manhattan's Central Park. Erected to commemorate Roosevelt the explorer and Roosevelt the naturalist, the man who rode the plains of the West, penetrated the River of Doubt, hunted through the African jungle, the new and still empty museum heard more at its dedication of Roosevelt the statesman. Franklin Roosevelt filled his address with T. R. quotations, most of which needed little stretching to apply to the New Deal. In his first message to Congress Roosevelt I had written...
...correspondent died in Ethiopia, Chicago Tribune's Will Barbour. Of him in Manhattan last week Emperor Haile Selassie's Public Relations Counsel Josef Israels II said, "I like to place Will Barbour among some of the other empire builders who are buried in African soil, because never in all the history of journalism has the press so swiftly, so expertly and so completely built an empire of news and enlightenment in a wilderness hitherto unpenetrated." This was one way of alluding to the fact that it remains impossible to obtain for love or money anything remotely approaching...
...action and much prospect of increased difficulties--such is the picture Italy has to contemplate. Even a few weeks hence we may see faces replaced in Rome, an ambiguous League policy redirected and an even more paradoxical neutrality policy in the United States overturned. In itself, the lull in African warfare means less than nothing. The quiet is a surface calm. Mussolini's barometer is dropping fast. By the same token, the monarchial barometer is rising...
...Africa will look with deep concern on this native triumph? That prominent Britons will look askance at this hitherto unconsidered puissance which commands the Lake Tana and which may, by example, menace the British hegemony in Africa? Can he not realize that maintaining a strong and independent native African state and at the same time showing the rest of Africa that the white man's shoes may sometimes encase clay feet is a blow to the prestige of the dominating races in Africa that will cause Downing Street and the Foreign Office to break out in a rash...
History can repeat the story of the South African Kaffirs and if Haile Selassie expects his affairs to return status quo ante after the shooting dies down he is likely to receive a smart rap on the "kisser." Indeed it would appear that the Newshawk Negus had better send his "obit" to the linotyper for the coin of fate may be tails on both sides...