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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beneficent system?too beneficent, as it turned out. The Chinese coolie who contentedly grew rice in the river bottoms, and the Filipino who irrigated the sugar-cane fields, had children who were U. S. citizens. The second and third generation of field workers, after much free schooling, refused to live and do as their forebears. So the importation of labor went on and Depression caught the islands with a far larger white-collar population than an agricultural land can easily support...
...before Bolshevik courts-martial, noted for their readiness to inflict the supreme penalty. In his new post as Commissar, Genrikh Yagoda can by fiat sentence any Russian to exile in Siberia or elsewhere, or to imprisonment for up to five years. Since it is unusual for a prisoner to live as long as five years in certain notorious Soviet prisons, notably that of Solovetskii in the White Sea, most Moscovites realize that Comrade Yagoda still retains effective powers of life and death...
What, according to the Rule of 87, happens only once in 5,000,000,000 times apparently took place last week in Inotest, Rumania, where one Johanna Lordache was reported to have given birth to sextuplets.* Two died immediately. The others seemed destined to live...
...band of Mohawk Iroquois caught him by the St. Lawrence with some Huron converts. They took him to their village in what is now New York State, amusing themselves along the way by ripping out his fingernails, chopping off his thumbs, plucking out his hairs, heaping live coals on his body. Escaping after 14 months he went back to the scene of his captivity three years later to establish a mission. As he entered a cabin an Iroquois tomahawk cleaved his skull, starting him on the road to sainthood...
...their captives, they promptly set about pounding them with clubs, searing them with glowing irons, tearing out their fingernails. Father Brébeuf exhorted his comrades to bear up bravely. The Iroquois cut out his tongue. Father Brébeuf's eyes still sparked courage. The Iroquois gouged them out, dropped live coals in the sockets. They draped a red-hot necklace over his head. Then they scalped him, baptized him with boiling water...