Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year, three students from the College accompanied Carroll at their own expense on a scientific expedition to the Belgian Congo. The undergraduates studied anthropology, botany, zoology, and linguistics among the African tribes...
...N.A.A.C.P.'s Ivy correctly states that other Negroes have held Cabinet posts in France. TIME should have said that Minister Houphouet-Boigny is the first West African Negro to achieve Cabinet rank. Two French Negroes held major Cabinet offices before him: Cuban-born Severiano de Heredia, who became a French citizen, Mayor of Paris and Minister of Public Works, 1887; Martinique-born Henri Lémery, who was Minister of Justice...
...Vernon's Cornell College, announced that he will campaign for the Republican congressional nomination in Iowa's Second District on a foreign policy platform. His program: "To carry on a campaign whose one purpose shall be a discussion of how to win our Asian and African neighbors as friends and co-workers . . ." A friend and biographer of Gandhi, Dr. Muzumdar is less concerned with beating G.O.P. Incumbent Henry O. Talle than getting Iowans to give his views some thought...
Walt Disney happily has moved in for the weekend at the U.T. The African Lion will growl at Peter and the Wolf and The Emporer Penguine. Fred McMurray thinks he has everyone At Gunpoint, but he won't have you if you enter...
...Bill Holden-in 16 countries. This year he will hit the road again: from Paris to Moscow, Cairo to Hong Kong. On the way he picks up culture as well as contacts-he has made a handsome collection of primitive art, and has added a shelf of Asian and African music to his huge record library-but mostly he picks up facts, figures and feelings about the world he lives in. For at the back of his mind, Bill Holden holds a tantalizing thought: politics. Says a friend: "He would be a success in politics-a success at almost anything...