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...Hitherto the Chagfield by-election has been a straight contest between 91-year-old Ambrose Fogge and six-year-old Master Tony Colt. But a Woman's Defence League candidate has stepped in, to demand equal hasps for wives, in order to end the serfdom of married women. This will probably have no effect on the election, as nobody knows what it means. . . . But everyone is rallying to youth. 'Experience isn't everything,' said Master Colt's nurse yesterday. 'Nor is inexperience,' replied Mr. Fogge's nurse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Beachcomber and Timothy Shy | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...estate in Pomerania. Baroness von Z. looked with disgust at her new gang of ragged, dirty farm hands. Her overseer gave tongue to a "wide gamut of howls." He wanted huskier help. For six months Painter Hélion and his mates lived on the lowest level of Nazi serfdom. They ate potato soup, potato-and-rye bread, cold potato dessert; their stomachs swelled with potato gas. By day they frantically dug potatoes side by side with peasants. Sometimes peasant children sneaked under the threshing machines, voraciously foraged for rye seeds. When the empty barrels of potato schnaps came back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...native-born workers who are in reality nothing short of tenant farmers so wonderfully portrayed in Tobacco Road? It is these very workers who are the target of Southern discrimination because of color and breeding. Why, therefore, does the State of North Carolina picture these products of feudal serfdom as glorious, happy Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 5, 1943 | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

Russia never enslaved any foreign race or nationality. If it know serfdom, the Russian nationality was in that serfdom as much as any other nationality in Russia. About the same time when slavery was eliminated in this country serfdom was abolished in Russia...

Author: By Pitirim A. Sorokin, | Title: No Double Cross by Russia, Says Sorokin | 4/23/1943 | See Source »

...come to terms or to blows with a German-dominated New Order. If Great Britain wins with U. S. aid, the U. S. will have the right and the duty to participate in an Anglo-Saxon New Order. The outlines of Germany's New Order are already clear: serfdom for everybody except the people who run Germany. Those of the Anglo-Saxon New Order are not clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peace Aims | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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