Word: african
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friends of the Ituran pigmy people by feeding them cake and candy. The pigmies may then lead Jungleer Johnson to the hidden lairs of the midget red buffalo, elephant, hippopotamus where, guarded by his sharpshooting wife, he will photograph and sound-record the awesome sights and sounds of an African jungle, by day and night...
Rosamund Johnson was next, arranger of The Book of American Negro Spirituals, composer on the African five-tone scale, whose voice is like a diapason. Taylor Gordon's is like molasses and a clear bell. They sang together. He trained Taylor...
...James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. A former Boer commander who harried the British long and successfully from 1899 to 1902, General Hertzog only occasionally succumbs to his native Dutch caution, as he did last week upon contemplating the spectacle of stolid South African farmers hastening to buy U. S. motor cars on credit.* "The disease of purchasing motor cars," said he before the Orange Free State Nationalist Congress, "is a real menace to the welfare of the Union. The purchase of a car on credit has become the greatest danger to the Union...
...which he can revel. The suggestion of the work came from the series of jungle paintings by Henri Rousseau, French expresisonist, whose simplicity and lack of the artificial form both a point of departure and a goal for Professor Josten's composition: The music is neither based strictly on African themes and rhythms, nor is it entirely subjective; it offers some translation of the former, and simultaneously treats the emotions of the white man in the jungle...
Curious about international white slave traffic, Author Londres once lived with the traffickers, about whom he wrote The Road to Buenos Aires. His latest excursion-to Africa, through French Sudan, the High Volta, the Ivory Coast, Togoland, Dahomey, the Congo-disclosed a black slave traffic. The native African, says he, is a "banana engine" making the roads of a continent at the expense of his life. He may work a month on banana fuel, then find himself owing eleven francs because of huge taxes. Other Londres observations: 1) in French Africa a white man who strikes a black gets fined...