Word: angola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey Convict James Monroe Smith, ex-president of Louisiana State University, who tried suicide by slashing a vein in his foot with a razor blade while he sat in a jail bathtub (TIME, Nov. 27), was given a machete, set to work chopping sugar cane at Louisiana's Angola Prison Farm...
...German freighter Adolph Woer-mann (8,577 tons) slipped out of Lobito, Angola,* where she had lain interned since war began. With her escaped the German liner Windhuk (16,662 tons), a vessel built in 1936, reputedly for special war work: raiding. Germans in Lobito said Windhuk, heavily armed, had been altered to resemble a British ship. They also said the two ships had finally made a break because their crews were becoming restive, cooped up on short rations. Windhuk had a crew picked from other German ships lying in Lobito. She still carried several passengers stuck aboard...
...bloody suicide by slashing his right foot. (It was his second attempt: last July, in the Federal House of Detention at New Orleans, he tried to have bichloride of mercury smuggled to him in an ice cream carton.) Two days later an ambulance carried off ineffectual Convict Smith to Angola State Penitentiary, to begin serving eight to 24 years for forgery...
Lately another problem has become acute. Britons have talked of satisfying Germany's hunger for "colonies by assigning Angola to the Nazis. "The British" as one British paper proclaimed, "are prepared to endure almost unlimited sacrifices of Portuguese territory in their anxiety to secure a more equitable and peaceful share of the world's goods." Encouraged by this sentiment and backed by German funds...
...Angola's small clannish German group, which constitutes, next to the Portuguese, the largest white population, built up a strong separatist movement among the natives. Therefore, harried Dr. Salazar concluded it was time "to show the natives of the colonies that Portugal is master of the land, that the flag flies over them with undiluted colors." Hence President Carmona's visit. To make the visit more joyful the Premier agreed to part with $7,000,000 of his prized funds...