Word: african
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...privy purse. Not until a generation later did the Powers fully realize that they had allowed Uncle Leopold to seize, under humanitarian pretexts, one of the richest colonial empires on the Globe. Astounding is the story of how British-born & U. S.-bred Henry Morton Stanley, greatest African explorer, sought to convince U. S. and British statesmen of the boundless worth of the Congo; of how he was feted as an explorer but had his practical suggestions ignored, and finally joined reluctant forces with Belgium's Leopold. Belated exposures of "Belgian Atrocities" in the Congo-true tales of Blackamoors...
...compounds were prepared under the direction of Professor A. B. Loevenhart of Wisconsin. He believes the conquest of African sleeping sickness would be equivalent to the discovery of a continent. But more than Africa is at stake. Before the War the tsetse fly was unknown in Arabia; in recent years it has turned up there. Also strange new diseases of camels have developed in Palestine, similar to sleeping sickness; caused by trypanosomes. Finally, laymen are startled when Pharmacologist Stratman-Thomas tells them that: "In prehistoric times this fly lived in the Americas and fossils of some twenty-odd species have...
...opening of the lecture amphitheatre of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the Medical Centre, Manhattan, a little old Dutchman, Professor C. W. Ariens Kappers, got up to talk. He began immediately to use the names of mysterious and exotic sicknesses-African Sleeping Sickness and how it had been cured by Bayer, malaria injections and how they helped general paralysis (TIME, April 2. June 4). For several minutes Professor Kappers stressed the past success of quiet cures wrought in maniacs and melancholies by somnifen injections over a period of 14 days. Somnifen produces a hypnotic sleep in which there...
...same rousing theme was taken as a text by Dictator Mussolini, at Rome, where he proceeded to bestow a coveted medal on the corps flag of the Italian Colonial Air Force. In ringing tones Il Duce declared that during the four-month period of hottest fighting in the two African colonies, last winter, 4000 war flights were made, 100,000 rounds of ammunition fired, and 400,000 pounds of explosives were dropped upon native tribes foolish enough to resist the Italian colonizers...
Died. Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, 51, native of Japan, discoverer of the germ and the curative serum for South American yellow fever; of African yellow fever, in Accra, West Africa. He had been working in conjunction with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research to find the African yellow fever germ. On the fifth day of his illness he had a monkey injected with a few drops of his own infected blood. The monkey died. Fifty other monkeys were infected and died (TIME, May 21). Thus Dr. Noguchi had discovered the African germ, and was planning to work for a serum when...