Word: happenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the approach of the general elections, South African hoardings have recently been decked with posters depicting a white woman, a native husband and colored children. The antiSemitic, anti-native, anti-British, pro-Nazi Nationalist Party had designed the poster as a "horrible example" of what would happen if Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog's and Deputy Prime Minister Jan Smuts's United Party Government were continued in office. Left unmentioned was the fact that custom prevents miscegenation in the Union of South Africa and between 1932 and 1936 records show that not one white woman...
There was a small, triangular shelf hung between the chimney and a gable, and here Vag could lie, almost completely stripped, protected from the interested gaze of strollers who might happen to glance up at the House roof. Here he could surrender himself to the rays of the hot sun--allow these rays to suck the energy out of him until he was their debilitated slave, let them gradually numb-his senses until he felt that, by the consummation of some mysterious union he had become part of a dazzling realm of sunlight. By rolling over a slightly so that...
...Action is only a matter of weeks now," the history professor stated. "If the election crisis can be tided over to the middle of June, it is possible that nothing will happen for quite a while...
...nobody knows what will happen," Professor Langer concluded. "It is impossible to predict what goes on in the heads of other...
White House correspondents work on the understanding that the President plays no favorites, grants no exclusive interviews. Krock's colleagues, good and sore, promptly obtained from Press Secretary Stephen Early a promise that this kind of thing would never happen again. Many newshawks felt the interview appearing during the fight on the Supreme Court Bill had been planted. Last fortnight. Earl Godwin, Washington Times reporter and president of the White House Correspondents' Association, carried the controversy to Dean Carl Ackerman of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where Pulitzer possibilities are sifted: "If, as some say, this story...