Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...None. The Lord of Diamonds is Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, chairman of De Beers and Diamond Corp. (which together own Diamond Trading Co.), and understudy of the late Empire-building Cecil Rhodes. Now living on his spacious ranch outside Johannesburg, Sir Ernest makes only occasional visits to the little grey building in London from which the cartel rules...
...most important legal decision for lizards in 200,000,000 years has been handed down by a South African court. In Johannesburg Isaac Alter, owner of a curio shop, was haled before a court because two of his native (Negro) employes had separated 30 live lizards from their valuable skins. Cruelty to animals is an offense under South African law. But the case raised a nice point of biolegalism: is a lizard an animal? Ruled Magistrate C. J. Humphreys: "An animal is a sentient being which takes food in a digestive cavity, has the power of voluntary motion...
...they tossed out Regent Paul, installed King Peter II, 17. It took the Wehrmacht ten days to overrun the unprepared country. The British, who are believed to have inspired the coup against him, hauled Prince Paul away to South Africa, where they are still paying his Johannesburg nightclub chits. King Peter fled first to Athens, then London. But a Yugoslav colonel, Draja Mihailovich, retired to the hills with a handful of soldiers and kept on fighting. He may or may not have heard about the hard-faced Croat named Tito, who, a month before the German armies invaded Russia...
Rope Trick. In Johannesburg, South Africa, a native named Mongola cut grass, spent a whole day plaiting it into a rope, then climbed a tree and hanged himself...
Died. Reza Shah Pahlavi, 66, deposed Shah of Iran; in Johannesburg, South Africa. The tyrannical, miserly, violently anti-foreign builder of modern Iran, he became its dictator by military coup in 1921, "resigned" in favor of his son after the Russian-British invasion...