Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month, the U.N. Economic and Social Council heard charges that the economy of Soviet Russia is based on slave labor. Next day, the Times front page carried the charges under a two-column headline. Later, a special U.N. committee on slavery listened to a report asserting that certain practices of forced contract labor and the plight of immigrant Mexican and West Indian laborers in the U.S. added up to slave labor in the U.S. Next day, the front page of the New York Times, in exactly the same spot where the earlier story appeared, and in exactly the same...
...report on slave labor in the Soviet Union had asserted that slave labor forces, supervised by the secret police, accounted for 12.5% of Russia's timber production, 10% of her furniture and kitchenware and 40% of her chromium ores. It also said that the categories of persons listed by the M.V.D. as criminals to be used for forced labor included: liberals, members of Jewish organizations, mystics, industrialists, owners of large houses, persons who have been in the diplomatic service and relatives of persons who have escaped abroad...
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Coit. A spirited biography of the great ante bellum Sauth Carolinian who, as Congressman, Secretary of War and Vice President, was the champion of states' rights and the South's slave-owning aristocracy (TIME, March...
Stalin and Molotov are Old Bolsheviks, the aging top-dog survivors of the conspiratorial crew who seized power 32 years ago. Malenkov, an adolescent when the Revolution began, is a New Bolshevik. His character was fashioned in the dark and stormy laboratory of civil war, purge trials, slave labor, thought control and the midnight calls of the secret police. He worked his way through the anonymous, self-anointed inner core of the party to its all-highest Politburo, to be Deputy Premier of the U.S.S.R. His rise to a position within touching distance of Stalin's mantle bears considerable...
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Coit. A spirited biography of the great ante bellum South Carolinian who, as Congressman, Secretary of War and Vice President, was the outspoken champion of states' rights and the South's slave-owning aristocracy (TIME, March...