Word: slaver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third-degree technique in Rumania is Grade A, and coughing Katinka soon confessed to 25 specific kidnappings and sales involving girls aged between 7 and 9. Chief factor in the slaver's long-successful activities, police said, was her system of breaking the kidnapped children's morale and cowing them so thoroughly thai after being "sold" few of the "slaves" dared to run away. "I kept the children locked up in lonely houses and 'trained' them in my own way to be good workers," confessed tuberculous Katinka Barbalate. "Yes, I tortured them...
...Slaver Kassel had operated largely in London, setting up girls sent over by M. Vernon each in her own discreet Mayfair flat. Each paid from $250 to $500 to obtain British citizenship by being married off to a cheap British crook, who received from $10 to $50 for his trouble. Last week expensively-dressed, 220-lb. Mr. Kassel was found bullet-riddled in a ditch 20 miles outside London. Wide open broke a major European vice racket about which detectives on both sides of the channel seemed to teem with information...
...there. . . ." The Record editor plastered Boston with pictures of his Gal Reporter, then sent her out in disguise on various rough assignments. She was seldom recognized. Twice she was in danger of having more than her disguise removed. Posing as a dancer looking for work, she allowed a white slaver to take her to his room where she was badly beaten, but refused to take her clothes off, and had the presence of mind, while he was "ripping and tearing" at her, to stick her monogram pin in the mattress for identification purposes. When she went to a nudist colony...
...reappearance is sometimes anticlimactic. From France to Italy to Cuba to Africa to Europe again the story goes, then heads west to Louisiana and loses itself among the deserts and mountains of Mexico. Spanning the Napoleonic period, it introduces many a historical personage in human guise: Napoleon himself, Talleyrand, Slaver Mongo Tom, the Rothschilds (né Meyer). Though this lavish scene forms only the background for the hero, he is the least "real" (i. e., objectified) person in the book. A picaresque Everyman, he wanders the world searching for his soul, finally finds it; but most readers will be less...
...young women were Chileans-which was puzzling. In Buenos Aires the trade demands Franchuchas (French prostitutes), reluctantly accepts such substitutes as Poles, scorns South American recruits. On the eight men letters were found which solved the puzzle. With elaborate Latin courtesy a Buenos Aires white slaver wrote to his "forwarding agent" in Valparaiso that he had been unable to get any French or European women sent over via Panama to be forwarded via Chile. Apologetically the slaver asked his agent to stoop to recruiting Chilean women. "The prying activities of the League of Nations," he wrote plaintively, "have been giving...