Word: johannesburgers
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...defaming the Jewish race. Acting as though there really existed that chief bugaboo of Jew-baiters, a secret international Jewish commercial organization, he proposed an international boycott of German goods by Jewish importers and commission merchants "from Vladivostok and Shanghai to Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg." He offered to organize a general staff to help importers all over the world find substitutes for German goods and send weekly bulletins to leaders of Jewish communities in every city...
Joyous Johannesburghers reveled last week in "the biggest boom since 1895." While South Africa's currency, recently detached from the gold standard (TIME, Jan. 9), slowly declined, South Africa's gold mining shares doubled & tripled on Johannesburg's big board, carried other common stocks up with them in a gaudy "inflation boom...
...boomed Judge Roos at Johannesburg, "that neither General Smuts nor Premier Hertzog is capable of founding a coalition to pull the country out of the muck! If they could I should not be in the arena. As things stand, here...
...Cape Town at Africa's nether tip; Natal on the east coast; the inland Orange Free State; and the Northern Transvaal, seat of Pretoria, the. Union administrative capital, 850 mi. northeast of Cape Town. Severest shocks were felt in Natal where brick houses cracked open, some collapsing. In Johannesburg, largest South African city (pop. 288,000) 40 mi. south of Pretoria, doors and windows rattled, bric-a-brac fell off mantel pieces and fearless white correspondents cabled "the natives were terrified...
...career; in the course of a single evening's exercise, at St. Paul, Minn. ¶ William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, itinerant Georgia heavyweight pugilist: a 12-round bout against Dan McCorkindale of South Africa; by decision; before the biggest African prizefight crowd (15,000); at Johannesburg...