Word: slave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commander Locker -Lampson (Tory sponsor of the motion) : "The time has come to stop making freeborn Englishmen the helots of a slave State...
Four venturies unroll to provide a political pantomine of the moment. Spain has asked the Government of Mexico for the bones of Hernando Cortex. The conqueror of Peru and Mexico, arch-slave driver, arch-adventurer, first buried near Seville, was removed later, according to a wish he had expressed, across the Atlantic. He was laid near the scenes of his crassest cruelty; and has lain there until history and romance have bleached his fame, torn off the invincible armor, and have feigned, at least, to see "stout Cortez", "silent, upon a peak in Darien...
...Tchaikovsky will be featured. The Saturday program is of the usual sort, with classic and popular music in a balanced nation. The program for Saturday follows: March, "El Capitan" Sousa Overture to, "Orpheus" Offenbach Largo from "Xerxes" Handel (Solo Violin, Harp, Organ and Strings) Fantasia, "Il Trovatore" Verdi Marche Slave Tchaikovsky Legend Holy Prelude in D-flat Glazonnov-Jacchia Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin Berceuse from "Jocelyn" Godard (Solo 'Cello--Jacobus Langendoen) Waltz, "Espana" Waldteufel
Since 1924 the League of Nations Temporary Slavery Commission has been collecting slave-data. At the September League session (TIME, Sept. 21), the Commission submitted a report; and the League Assembly passed a resolution favoring a "Draft Slavery Convention" or international anti-slavery concordat...
...Gladlators Fucik Overture to "The Beautiful Galatea" Suppe Fantasia, "Rigoletto" Verdi Suite "L'Arlesienne No. 2" Bizet a. Pastorale b. Minuet c. Farandole Canzone van Westerhout Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier Song of India Rimsky-Korsakov (Solo English Horn: Louis Speyer) American Fantasy Herbert Marche Slave Tchaikovsky