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First Lord of Diamonds is mustached Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who lives grandly at Johannesburg, makes occasional visits to London. Sir Ernest, knighted in 1921 for services to the Empire, is chairman of Diamond Corp., which controls 95% of the world's diamond production, chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines, world's most important diamond mining company. As boss of both ends of Britain's diamond cartel, he always lets his left hand know what his right is doing. When buyers get languid, Sir Ernest's tight little combination turns off the diamond supply like a kitchen...
...Actor Louis Hayward, who has made several false starts in cinema, his spirited attack on what the movie industry still calls a Douglas Fairbanks role may at last mean a place above the Hollywood salt. Born 30 years ago in Johannesburg, son of an English banker, Actor Hayward made his London stage name as a juvenile smart enough for Noel Coward shows, his screen debut in the English version of Sorrell and Son. Brought to Hollywood four years ago, he swashbuckled promisingly in Anthony Adverse but soon ran into an unpredictable snag: he began losing his British accent. Last year...
...Johannesburg, South Africa, Professor Raymond Dart of the University of the Witwatersrand made a startling report: From the jungle where he had been reared by baboons, white policemen rescued a 12-year-old Negro. The boy could at first make only baboonlike noises. When he learned Afrikaans, he told goggle-eyed Professor Dart': "My food consisted mainly of crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey. . . . While with the baboons I walked on all fours and slept in the bush entirely naked...
...Reformed Church piled spiritual coals on the political fire. They declared that the wagons represented the Biblical Ark, that their axle grease would cure diseases, that children baptized in the wagons would lead blessed lives. The Czech crisis and the German pogroms were excuses for severe nationalistic outbreaks. In Johannesburg bearded Fascists fell on a band of antiFascists with iron bars, bicycle chains, knives, revolvers; over 100 were injured. In Benoni a synagogue was blown to the Promised Land...
...Some Afrikanders were not prepared to be hospitable to Jews. In Johannesburg a meeting of Boers turned into an anti-Jewish demonstration. There were shouts of "Down With the Jews!" and 30 were injured in a disgraceful exhibition of South African hooliganism...