Word: transvaal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music of the people, by the people and - at 35? a crack - for a good many people. Album items: Songs of the South African Veld, sung by Josef Marais and his Bushveld band. Part Huguenot, part Dutch and a lot of just plain cowboy is the music of the Transvaal. Sarie Marais, the song of a Boer girl waiting in the mealies (maize fields) by the old thorn tree for her lover to come back from fighting the English, should fall pleasantly on ears fond of U. S. Westerns and Spanish-American war ballads. Stellenbosch Boys is a rousing bumpkin...
Prime Minister Smuts, his Government riding the crest of popular indignation, recalled that The Netherlands once gave sanctuary to beaten President Kruger of the Transvaal Republic, advised Queen Wilhelmina last week that if Her Majesty or any members of the Dutch Royal Family should come to South Africa the Dominion would "esteem this the greatest honor and privilege in return for the kindness extended to President Kruger...
Died. James Francis Smith, New York City Police lieutenant, 56; of pneumonia and heart disease; in Manhattan. Biggest adventure: at 16, as a telegraph messenger boy, he traveled 12,000 miles during the Boer War to deliver a message of sympathy to President Oom Paul Kruger of the Transvaal Republic from 29,000 Philadelphia schoolboys...