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...blast was fired in a limestone quarry near Taungs in Bechuanaland, South Africa. In the material that tumbled to the foot of the cliff were fossil fragments from a cave which the blast had exposed. The manager gathered the fossil-bearing chunks together, handed them to a Johannesburg geologist named Young who was stopping by on business. Dr. Young took them to Dr. Raymond Arthur Dart, professor of anatomy at the University of Johannesburg. Laboriously scraping away the rocky mineral, Professor Dart uncovered a small, fragmentary skull with the face almost intact. The scientist quickly realized that...
...young U. S. Jew named Isadora W. Schlesinger tired of his family's banking business, ran away to Johannesburg, Africa, where he landed with only a few pennies in his pocket. Smart, hardworking, he set out to make his way not by mining but by servicing the miners. Beginning with insurance, he got into real estate, farming, banking, shipping, chain stores, theatres. Now 61, he is short, round-faced, roly-poly, called "the Rockefeller of South Africa" because he owns more of it than any other man. Still a U. S. citizen, he dislikes publicity, hides in a tiny...
When the Federal Council asked Dr. Jones to reawaken U. S. Protestantism, that good man retreated to the Himalayas. There in mountain solitude he studied, prayed, meditated for three months. This summer he emerged, proceeded to Capetown, Johannesburg and other South African communities, arrived fortnight ago at Beaver College at Jenkintown, Pa. There with other members of the National Preaching Mission Dr. Jones prayed, played, planned...
...Died. Sir Thomas Cullinan, 74, owner of South Africa's Premier Mine, in which was discovered in 1905 the world's biggest diamond (Weight: 3,106 carats-1⅓ lb.); in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cullinan I, largest (530 carats) of the 105 diamonds cut from it, reposes in King Edward VIII's scepter...
...heave and simmer over the volcanic question of Indian immigration, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-not vet a Mahatma but already a smart agitator-challenged the Government to slippery grips, it was Smuts who had to bear the onus of sending him to jail. When labor troubles invaded the Johannesburg mines, it was Smuts who alienated the workers by ordering out troops, arresting and deporting the labor leaders without trial. It was also Smuts who got most of the criticism, little of the credit, for the. Union of South Africa...