Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AFRICAN HUNTER-Bror von Blixen-Finecke-Knopf...
Their pre-publication office was a room in an ancient two-story frame house on Manhattan's East 18th Street. Between their desks stood a large iron kettle-about the size and shape used by African cannibals for the boiling of missionaries...
...while a buggy salesman, young Harvey met and helped Henry Ford, then devising a chassis for the gasoline motor. Six years later he founded Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., with 17 employes. In three decades he was paying 20,000 workers in the U. S., 20,000 Liberians on African rubber plantations. Last year his company made $9,300,000. Besides Ford, his closest friend was the late great Thomas Alva Edison. A little man, shy, well-groomed, he raised horses, and dairy cows, was an active Episcopalian, left five sons and a daughter...
...girls.* At 15 he was ready to go to the University of Alabama. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, interrupted his studies to work for Herbert Hoover's relief commission in Belgium, to go to India, take a fling in General Smuts's East African Army. He was twice mistakenly arrested as a spy. When he arrived in Alabama to enlist in the U. S. Army in 1917, barely 25 miles from his birthplace he was arrested for the third time because a deputy sheriff was suspicious of the foreign stickers on his luggage. After...
Stuart Cloete's South African novel The Turning Wheels has sold 164,000 copies in the U. S., 50,000 in England, has been a best-seller in South Africa. But now no Cape Town bookseller has a copy. After it had been damned as an insult to Boer heroes, "filthy," discourteous, inaccurate, misleading to foreign readers, Minister of the Interior Stuttaford banned the book with a ruling that stopped importation of new copies. Claiming that the ban was political, with no legal excuse given, the English publishers announced: "The Government feared the loss in the forthcoming elections...