Word: daniel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black Fear. Last week, on the 111th anniversary of the Blood River battle, the thanksgiving day turned into a raucous demonstration of Boer chauvinism. Prime Minister Daniel Malan's nationalist government formally dedicated a new monument to the Voortrekkers, a massive, brooding granite tabernacle on the boulder-strewn veld near Pretoria. South Africa's 8,000,000 black people were excluded from all celebrations. For days before the actual dedication ceremonies, while bonfires blazed in the hilltops around Pretoria, frantic rumors had swept the wretched native settlements that the white men were bent on a bloody sequel...
After a conversation with Daniel Shay, investigating agent for the Commonwealth Board of Collegiate Authority, Wallach stated that he had obtained an extension of time for the rearrangement of his complaint against Feeney, in which the new witness will play a leading part...
...foreseen, Israel bitterly defied the U.N. action. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharrett announced that his government would never give up Jerusalem: "To the Jewish people [Jerusalem] has been and is the very heart-the symbol of its past glory, the lodestar in its wanderings . . ." Jerusalem's Israeli Mayor Daniel Auster warned: "We shall stand at the city's gates to keep out any pretenders." A spokesman in Tel Aviv threatened passive resistance: "I don't know if a U.N. governor will find a house to work in. If he does and sets about establishing public services...
...mail-order business grew so fast that within a few months he had filled his basement with books to be mailed. When his wife protested that she hadn't enough room to do the washing, he moved his Webster Publishing Co. (named after Noah and Daniel) to two rat-infested rooms on the riverfront. Within three years, Webster's sales amounted to $102,000. By 1928, they had doubled. By 1931, W.P. had another idea...
Wallach contacted the Board of Collegiate Authority of the State Department of Education yesterday and spoke with Daniel Shay, the investigating agent of the board. Shay gave four criteria that an educational institution must meet for certification...