Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inferiority complex. He fails to realize that he comes of a great ancestry linked with the great races of the Orient. . . . What he should do is try for 'black greatness' and not an imitation of 'white greatness.' I am more than ever convinced that the African civilization dates back to the times when Oriental culture, including that from China, began to influence the Western world. I believe where the Afro-American made his mistake was when he began trying to mimic the West instead of developing the really great tendencies he inherited from the East...
...William George Patton of the St. Louis County Hospital considered it significant that the epidemic's start coincided with the greatest influx of mosquitoes in St. Louis County history. Queerest theory advanced was that Catholic missionaries, some from Africa, convening in St. Louis last month had brought genuine African sleeping sickness. Autopsies on three victims showed the brain red and pressing down on the spinal column. Serum from the brain of one victim killed a monkey, left a rabbit unscathed...
Friends of the Frederick Trubee Davisons wondered last week which one had killed the elephant. Mr. Davison, the American Museum of Natural History's new president, had cabled from Africa, where he and his wife are hunting specimens for the museum's new Akeley African Hall, under the guidance of the Africa-wise Martin Elmer Johnsons: "Have organized safari and got small bull elephant; all well." In the Davison marksmanship there was no clue to identify the killer-both are excellent shots-nor in their respective degrees of bloodthirstiness. Before President Davison sailed, commissioned by his curators...
...coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I, King of Kings of Ethiopia, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God, Light of the World. Last week the Abyssinian sovereign royally returned the courtesy when his mahogany-colored son-in-law, Ras (Prince) Desta Demtu arrived in Washington in all his African splendor. Told off to escort him was the State Department's Jefferson Patterson. Only with the greatest difficulty had an Ethiopian flag (green, yellow, red) been dug up to deck the Mayflower Hotel, the Ethiopian national anthem orchestrated for the reception by the Army band at the Union Station...
...underworldlings left with appreciable means. He has peddled spurious stocks on two continents-in dry oil wells, flooded Florida land, non-existent glass casket companies-since he professionally laid down his razor in Chicago twelve years ago. At one time he bought an exhausted African platinum mine, dressed Negroes up in muddy work clothes, took photographs of them, prepared literature for a grand swindle in London. He had just bought postage to distribute the literature when a newspaper exposed his knavery. Incorrigible Jake the Barber sued the British Government for the postage, lost the suit. He returned...