Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thesis of a study published last week by President Edwin Rogers Embree of the Julius Rosenwald Fund.* From 1619 when John Smith bought "twenty Negars" and thus introduced slavery to Anglo-Saxon America, until 1808 when the U. S. formally forbade slave importations, the Negroes came from diverse African stocks. From the beginning, the African races in America married among themselves and with Indians, and practically from the beginning acquired white blood. Comments Mr. Embree: "No special odium was attached to the begetting of mulatto children in slave days. It was regarded almost as a matter of course. Thomas Jefferson...
...American Weekly. And its "scientific" articles, favorites of all Sunday editors, were somewhat less imaginative. Features of the first issue: a description of the aborigines of Australia & New Zealand; the child temple-dancers of Bali; Ras Tafari's monogamy; a big-game hunting article, suggesting that African lions are really tame; a summary of now familiar facts about Siam's royalty. The American Weekly of the same date offered: "If the Earth Becomes Uninhabitable-Where Shall We Go?," with brilliant illustrations; "Mystery of American Lady Curzon's Vanished Millions." "Still Another 'Betty Coed' Tragedy...
...Capetown last week, bearded Boers and other members of the South African Party struggled through a party convention, listened to innumerable speeches in Cape Dutch and English, introduced innumerable resolutions. One motion, introduced by the followers of a Col. D. Reitz, startled the floor and set international cables buzzing. Moved the Reitzers...
Both M. van Zeeland and the Associated Press omitted one important cause of Belgium's prosperity, her African colonies. Much water has flowed under many bridges since the bold bad days of King Leopold and the rubber atrocities in the Congo. Today the Belgian Congo produces no rubber (plantation rubber is being cultivated to regain the market that wild Congo rubber once commanded), but it does produce enough coffee and cotton to fill a large part of Belgium's needs. Palm nuts and palm oil are the most important assets of the colony, mining excepted...
...A.U.S. team of track & field athletes: a meet against the combined teams of South African and Transvaal Universities, at Johannesburg, South Africa; by winning ten out of twelve events, in four of which (discus, pole-vault, shot-put, javelin-throw) Pennsylvania's Bernard ("Barney") Berlinger made new South African records...