Word: serfdom
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...Francis E. ("The Plan'') Townsend, 69, to 30 days in jail, $100 fine; for contempt of the U. S. House (TIME, June 8); in Washington's Federal District Court; in Washington. Appealing the sentence, the old pensioner cried: "My crackpot idea . . . will save America from economic serfdom...
...Comrades! Statistics reveal that in Japan from 30,000 to 40,000 young girls are sold by their parents every year into lives of shame. Monstrous! It is no secret that the Japanese and German imperialists are preparing to make war on the Soviet Union to re-establish serfdom in Russia and sell Russian women into lives of shame! If they try, Comrades, we will meet them with invincible forces! Our glorious Red Army...
Four pages, battering with the ineffectiveness of pop pistols against the stury fortress of Namur, represent the hysterical attempt of our brethren to shake off the "irons of serfdom". Using for a criterion the old Harvard Herald which subsided into silence in 1883, the prevailing tone of the issue represents not only the spirit of a by-gone era but also the general effect of a much used trick...
...story is the capitalist system. Its "hero" victim, Karl, bandy-legged legitimized bastard of a Viennese trolley conductor and a servant girl, grows up in his city slum to the slow realization that his father is a drunkard, his mother a drudge, and he himself doomed to serfdom unless he can somehow get himself into the white-collar class. He is almost there when the War swallows him. Vomited out after the armistice as an unemployed veteran, complete with scars and medals, he starves, emigrates to Sweden, goes home to more starvation. Down the long scale of disintegration he slips...
...what Stalin's government is doing to commercialize and make scientifically minded a people whose past has been deeply rooted in the soil. One sees how an agrarian Russia has been pulled into a mighty vortex,--one whose ceaselessly grinding wheels make an American shudder and think how pleasant serfdom must have been for the Russians compared with this new system. Yet, in observing the expressions on these laborers' faces, one is led to believe they are perfectly happy and satisfied with their lot. Ten minutes seems much too short a time to witness what is happening in this unique...