Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. C. Louis Leipoldt, 66, South African poet, physician, surgeon and gourmet (he relished lion meat, and recommended that babies imbibe wine rather than milk*); of a heart attack; in Capetown...
Married. The Hon. Richard Frederick Wood, 26, son of the Earl of Halifax, Britain's wartime Ambassador to the U.S.; and Diana Kellett, 20; in London. During the British Eighth Army's North African campaign, the bridegroom lost both legs...
...Helgoland-the tiny, mile-long island, 28 miles north of Germany. In 1890, when Britain traded it to the Germans for Zanzibar and a chunk of continental Africa, it was considered a fine swap. "Like getting a whole suit of clothes for a single trouser button," crowed famed African Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. By 1914 the Kaiser had spent $80 million turning Helgoland into an "unsinkable battleship...
Mexican judges knew little of silicosis in 1929; company lawyers cried that Lawyer Aléman had invented it. But Aléman had studied a report on silicosis in South African mines. For Pedro Aguayo he won a 4,900-peso verdict. A week later he had 3,000 more such cases. A week after that he had a brand-new car. By month's end he and his partner-chubby Gabriel Ramos Milland, now a senator-had 16,000 cases. They got 25% of all judgments, figured half of that clear profit...
Under the circumstances, Langer argues, the U.S. would have been foolish to withdraw in a high-minded huff merely out of distaste for Darlans and Lavals. Langer says that Vichy's North African governor, General Maxime Weygand, "was just as intent as we on excluding the Germans from North Africa and blocking any program of collaboration." Nine months before the U.S. went to war with Germany, the U.S. agreed to ship Weygand limited supplies of coal, sugar, tea, etc. In return, Weygand let U.S. vice consuls work with French Resistance leaders and report in cipher to Washington. In this...