Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held by a Negro, and having a Negro Minister, though stoutly backstopped by a white legation Secretary, does not simplify the art of diplomacy. 2) When the Secretary of State wants to send an emissary to Liberia, he is lucky if there is a ship sailing for the African West Coast within a month, luckier still if the emissary reaches Monrovia in less than another month. 3) When the emissary lands in a surf boat at Liberia's harborless capital, he finds a dirty, ramshackle tropical town whose inhabitants consist of about 100 whites, 10,000 blacks...
More serious was the charge that Liberian President Charles Dunbar Burgess King, along with his Vice President and several Cabinet members, had been profiting by having their "Frontier Guard'' raid villages of their Afro-African countrymen, torture women and chiefs, seize black bucks and sell them into slavery in French Gabun and Spanish Fernando Po. When a League of Nations Commission verified the practice. President King and his followers, on stern advice from Washington, resigned. Next Liberia, under President Edwin Barclay, defaulted on its loan of $2,250,000 from Harvey Firestone. In 1925 when rubber...
Since Germany would like to grab an African colony herself, German editors have lately proved themselves among the world's most adept at understanding and sympathizing with Italy's designs on Ethiopia. Noting this last week, Benito Mussolini abruptly canceled the exclusion order which for the past year has kept out of Italy some 30 Nazi papers, including Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan the People's Observer...
Engaged. George Vanderbilt, 20, co-heir to the $30,000,000 estate left by his father, the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Lusitania victim; and Lucille Parsons, West Orange, N. J. socialite. From an African trip last spring Heir Vanderbilt brought back 5,000 snakes, 15,000 bugs, 10,000 birds, 15,000 ft. of cinema...
...last week four sea post clerks aboard the United States liner President Roosevelt kept a 24-hr, guard over the ship's vault. Inside it reposed the famed Jonker diamond, world's largest uncut gem and the largest privately owned diamond anywhere. Discovered by a South African farmer named Jonker last year (TIME, Jan. 29, 1934), the stone weighs 726 carats (about five ounces), is bigger than...