Word: chattel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cries out against any civic philosophy which would degrade man to the position of a soulless pawn in a sordid game of power and prestige, or would seek to banish him from membership in the human family; ... he opposes any social philosophy which would regard man as a mere chattel in commercial competition for profit, or would set him at the throat of his fellows in a blind, brutish class struggle for existence...
...lawyer can do better for them in the courts. "The future is often cloudy and even ominous," complained chocolate-skinned Austin Thomas Walden of Atlanta to the convention. "The Negro, not yet wholly freed from the tentacles of the subservient and defeatist hereditary psychology created by 250 years of chattel slavery and surrounded by a dominant race which magnified and deified everything white, while minimizing, depreciating, if not anathematizing, everything black, which hypothesis was for a long time openly and brazenly supported by the law, and always supported by unbending and inflexible custom and tradition, . . . unconsciously felt that...
Bankrupt-Actor Richard Bennett, father of Actresses Barbara, Constance and Joan; by voluntary petition, listing no assets, liabilities of $6,157, largest of which is an $800 chattel mortgage on his auto held by Daughter Joan; in Manhattan...
...will be an ever more imminent possibility as long as capitalism lasts--a social order which, like the systems of fendalism and chattel slavery which preceded it, has outlived its usefulness to the majority of those who live under it. It therefore behooves this majority to organize both politically and industrially for the purpose of eliminating the old system and building the new. It is to this task that the students of today must turn themselves if it is their desire to do away with war, crime, unemployment, poverty, class conflict, politicians, and the other evil effects of a disintegrating...
Theoretically, the Vinson Bill is a piece of legislation regularly originated and sponsored by an elected representative of the people of the U. S. Actually, it is child & chattel of the American Legion. Of that fact, in the final hearings before the Committee vote last week, the Legion's Commander Frank Nicholas Belgrano Jr. and its No. 1 Lobbyist John Thomas Taylor made no bones. "Our bill," said they, and "the American Legion ... its bill. . . ." But when the question came up of how to raise the $2,137,975,157 called for by the bill, Lobbyist Taylor modestly referred...