Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everything considered, Jim Bowie comes off mighty well in The Iron Mistress. Author Wellman admits that Bowie made his big killing smuggling slaves, the nastiast business of his day, but he uses his novelist's license overtime to show that Jim is uncomfortable in the slave trade and even pities some of its victims. In fact, he is in it only for the money. Even Jim's shady land speculations somehow take on the look of unintentional wrongs...
...Spaniards and the Festival of Britain as to who was the first man to sail around the world [TIME, July 2]: Leonard Outhwaite, in Unrolling the Map, published in 1935, says that "the first individual known to history to have passed around the world was a treacherous East Indian slave" known as Malacca Henry. Magellan bought him when he was in the East with Almeida between 1504 and 1512 and took him back to Spain. Magellan made this voyage by traveling eastward from Portugal. When he made his great voyage he sailed westward, taking Malacca Henry with him. Thus, when...
...decision, five more Britons were charged with refusing to show their identity cards. The lower courts dismissed every case. As Liberals and Tories began clamoring for repeal of the registration act, the London Observer pronounced it "intolerable" that Britons should be required to show cards like some slave-unit in a totalitarian state...
...Secretary of the State Council of well-meaning but pusillanimous Sultan Abdul Mejid. A sternly upright and able young man with compassionate and liberal convictions, Midhat was soon serving as a trouble-shooter in one tense corner after another of the sprawling Ottoman empire. His determined efforts to abolish slave labor, wipe out anti-Christian discrimination and establish schools and colleges went far to pacify Turkey's perennially rebellious Balkan provinces and to infuriate the Russians, who dreamed of a Balkan empire all their...
Yale's research ranges from Tacitus to spiders, from servomechanisms (socalled slave machines) to cancer and carbon 14 (the radioactive isotope that dates objects up to 30,000 years old). In its library (4,000,000 volumes), scholars are now in the process of editing the fabulous Boswell papers and the Wilmarth S. Lewis collection of Walpoliana. The "Boswell Factory" and the "Walpole Factory" alone make Yale the custodian of the most impressive collection of 18th Century English literature in the world...