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Always at heart a moderate, General Hertzog found himself in uneasy company. The extreme nationalists had gone in for religious racism. They had celebrated the centenary of the Great Trek hysterically for a whole year, touring the backveld from town to town in ox wagons. Anyone who didn't grow a voortreker (pioneer) beard was an "outlander" or a traitor. A synagogue was dynamited, and George VI's message to the final jamboree was read in Afrikaans. A hangover from this emotional bender was the growth of the Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Fireguard), an Afrikaans cultural organization specializing...
...American Medical Association, and proud of it. It is the only U. S. school of medicine, dentistry and nursing which is exclusively for Negroes. One day, before the Civil War, one of the Meharry brothers was carting grist from the mill to his midwestern farm, when his wagon bogged down in the mud. A Negro living nearby went to his rescue, but night fell on an unbudged wagon. So Meharry accepted the Negro's offer of shelter in his hut. Next morning they freed the wagon. Said the pious farmer to his helper: "I have no money to repay...
...little more to report than the fact that Fish and Wildlife Service says "the outlook for migratory waterfowl looks, promising." Once in a blue moon, when they get the chance, they go off on a literary bender. Last week the moon was electric blue, and Interior fell off the wagon with a pamphlet called Piscatorial Serenades...
Died. William Joseph ("Billy") Hill, 41, author of such back-home song hits as The Last Round-Up, The Old Spinning Wheel, Wagon Wheels and They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree; of heart disease; in Boston...
...second decision the Court reversed a Chicago Federal judge who had enjoined an A. F. of L. Milk Wagon Drivers' Union from picketing, because that activity violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The injunction could not be granted, ruled the court, because the controversy involved a labor dispute. The ruling was a clear-cut victory for the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which limits the granting of injunctions in labor disputes, paves the way for collective bargaining...