Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From Johannesburg. South Africa, Arnold Abrams sends in his own estimate of the value of reading TIME. Reader Abrams wrote me recently: "A friend and I broke the bank at [a] giveaway show in Johannesburg. We won ?205, about $615. The question was: Who won the European figure-skating championship for women? I said Jeannette Altwegg-which was right! ... I would not have known if it were not for my reading TIME from cover to cover every week...
...whites whom Nationalist Minister of Justice Charles Swart happens to dislike is voluble little Emil Solomon ("Solly") Sachs, 50, former secretary of Johannesburg's militantly anti-Communist Garment Workers' Union. Solly's principal crime in the minister's eyes is that his union has a mixed membership...
Boer women, Negroes and half-caste girls. Last spring the minister used his powers under the Nationalists' all-embracing Suppression of Communism Act to boot Solly out of his job in the Garment Workers' Union. Last week he hauled Sachs before a Johannesburg magistrate's court on charges of attending a meeting of his own trade union which, in the minister's opinion, "might have furthered the ends of Communism...
...none: Sachs was expelled from the Communist Party in 1931 because he wasn't sufficiently "revolutionary," and only recently in South Africa's supreme court he won $9,000 damages from a Nationalist newspaper which alleged that he was a "concealed Communist." Said the influential Johannesburg Star: "Sachs must be the only person in the country to have a supreme-court ruling that he isn't a Communist...
...Johannesburg Magistrate Edward George Halse knew better than to thwart Swart. Sachs was guilty, he ruled, because under the Suppression of Communism Act, a man is legally a Communist if the Minister of Justice merely says he is. Halse admitted that the minister's power is "wide and drastic, and must make serious inroads on liberty." Notwithstanding, he sentenced Solly Sachs to six months in jail...