Word: chattel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half a century. Women leaders opposed to the extremist tactics of the National Women's Party assert that because of the fundamental and inescapable differences between men and women in physique, endurance, and social function, the relinquishment of women's privileges would plunge them back into chattel slavery-a slavery dictated not by the superior authority of men, as formerly, but by the logic of economic necessity...
...exploitation are proved, by official facts, to be past and gone. The mistakes and seriocomic muddles are official mistakes and muddles alone. That they spring from a law whose application has been made too rigid and impersonal there can be no doubt. After all, the immigrant is not a chattel nor an automaton; he is a human being, and as such must have his own special problems and conditions...
...brine", he might well have been speaking of the modern labor union. There have been workingmen's associations in America since the beginning of the industrial era long before the Civil War. That they have earned an important place in our social organization is unquestioned; the abolition of chattel slavery in the South found its parallel in the relief of wage slavery in the North. But their quest for wholesome working conditions and a living wage has led the unions to extremes. There have been occasions, as Elbert Hubbard remarked, when the workman was forced either to "carry a union...
...Democrats cannot successfully challenge the Republican claim to superior administrative ability, they can honestly claim that except for the brief period when the party organization had become a chattel of the slave-holding oligarchy the Democratic Party has been the great champion of individual rights and of the liberties of the people. It is essentially the party of the Bill of Rights and of the constitutional guarantees of freedom, the uncompromising assertion of which was never more needed than it is today...