Word: johannesburger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ministerial act that set angry South Africans of all shades jampacking Johannesburg's Market Square in protest and touched off the biggest mass meeting ever held in Kimberley was that of Justice Minister Charles ("Blackie") Swart. To symbolize "the deep desire" of the Malan government "to relieve the people of the Union from the strain of the war years," Minister Swart released from prison five wartime traitors and saboteurs. One was 34-year-old ex-Boxer Sydney Roby Leibbrandt, who had been landed from a German U-boat to organize the pro-Nazi underground. South Africans remembered...
Along with 18 other U.S. newspaper and magazine editors and publishers,* I returned recently from a 22,000-mile flight inaugurating Pan American Airways' new direct route to Johannesburg, South Africa. During six days there, we were guests of the Union of South Africa and our host was Minister of Justice and Interior Harry Lawrence. I am sure I speak for my colleagues when I express my gratitude for a singularly exciting and enlightening trip and a too brief but very interesting look at South Africa's principal cities...
Elder Statesman Jan Christian Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, took a 783-mile hop from Capetown to Johannesburg to crown the "Wool Queen," next day crowned Miss South Africa, in the presence of Miss Britain, Miss France and Miss America (Barbara Jo Walker). Coming up shortly: national elections...
Sunday-School Teacher Barbara Jo Walker, Miss America of 1947, left New York by plane for Johannesburg, where she will help pick a Miss South Africa...
...Father Kumalo one day comes a letter from a brother in Christ in a Johannesburg mission. The letter informs him that his younger sister, Gertrude, is very sick. He must go to Johannesburg...