Word: boers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's nine "national" newspapers, and known as the highbrow of the mass-readership field. Heading its high command is dry, aging Chocolate Tycoon Laurence J. Cadbury, whose father bought shares in 1901 (at David Lloyd George's behest) to keep them out of the clutches of Boer War imperialists. As chairman of Daily News, Ltd., Quaker Cadbury, a publisher without a peerage, leaves its operations to a devoutly Liberal triumvirate: Sir Walter Layton, quondam Cambridge don who once edited the Economist; pedantic, competent Editor (since 1936) Gerald Barry, a Saturday Review alumnus, and tack-sharp Robin...
Official Business. In Ottawa, the Government wondered aloud why taxpayers objected to the destruction of surplus stock, revealed that a supply of saddles and harness had been periodically polished ever since the Boer...
...foreigners on the Witwatersrand outnumbered Boers 85,000 to 65,000. They also owned half the land and nine-tenths of the assessable property. The more their power increased, the more President Kruger sought to milk them with taxes and curb them with limited franchise; the more he succeeded, the more vengeful they became. As one old Boer summed it up: ''There are two riders but only one horse. . . . The question is which rider is going to sit in front...
...British Government repudiated him; he resigned from the Cape Parliament, of which he was Prime Minister. His dream of all Africa as a British colony collapsed, and along with it his plans for a "secret society" of wealth and brains that would rule the world. When, in 1899, Anglo-Boer hatred flared up again into active warfare, Rhodes was a broken man. He died less than three years later...
...handful of men against thousands of British regulars for six months, then made a desperate trip to Europe in search of aid. He died in Switzerland in 1904, and it was left to mere youths such as Smuts, Botha and Hertzog to build and shape today's Anglo-Boer Dominion of South Africa...