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...Africa, and 2) that the "inferiority" of all other races, especially the Negro, is divinely ordained and therefore unalterable. As editor (of Cape Town's Afrikaans Die Burger), Malan taught Afrikaners that South Africa belonged exclusively to them, that the Negro should know his place as a permanent "hewer of wood and drawer of water." In 1919 he was elected to Parliament as M.P. for the town of Calvinia. His first important achievement: inserting a new phrase in South Africa's Constitution: "The people of the Union acknowledge the sovereignty and guidance of Almighty...
Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is crusading for the idea that the U. S. Indian is not merely a hewer and weaver of interesting anthropological knickknacks, but a full-fledged artist, whose works can stand comparison with the sculpture, painting and architecture of many a more highly civilized people. The result is an exhibition of 834 works of U. S. Indian and Eskimo...
...first U. S. job was carving belt buckles on Civil War monuments in a Boston atelier. He went to Manhattan in 1911, started work under Paul Manship, also a hewer of the heroic. He did the actual carving on the Manship memorial tablet to J. Pierpont Morgan (Metropolitan Museum), worked on the surface texture of Manship's head of John Davison Rockefeller. By the time he left Manship to open a studio of his own he was earning $100 a week, was a naturalized citizen...
...182.Prospect of further conflict loomed when fiery Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi, "The Hewer of Communist Heads," declared at Peking, last week, that the Nationalist Armies will now extend their authority over Manchuria, while their enemies "scatter like dead leaves before the rising wind...
George Washington Browns, and there are many such in the South, will feel not a little piqued that their beloved hewer of the cherry tree has posthumously become the patron of the "Society for the Prevention of Calling Pullman, Car Porters 'George'." The inference is inevitable to a superstitious mind that the ghost of the great Father has risen in Danish wrath to object to the promiscuous use of his forename. A religious touch--which may smooth over the unmistakable insult to the present holders of the title--is added to the movement by the fact that Senator Moses...