Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prostitution. "Federal inspectors declared that last year 1,000 girls were shipped to Boston by the white slave ring which operates in some 30 New England cities. . . . There are eleven [syndicate] houses in Boston . . . scores of other 'houses.' . . . Boston is swarming with streetwalkers" [TIME...
...Arabs, they progress to Carthaginians in the Mediterranean striking a crafty bargain with the Egyptians. Venetians in the Levant when bartering was done with benefit of clergy so that polite thieving was sanctified. Subsequently they show the Portuguese in India, the Dutch in the Baltic, the English in China, slave traders and clipper ships in the 19th Century U. S.* The last is a generalized scene of modern industry- liners in a harbor, airplanes in the air, tall buildings rearing in the background, a sweating structural steel crew. Each unit is related to the whole by composition and color. There...
...Slavery and the Slave Trade", Professor Usher, Widener...
...Slavery and the Slave Trade", Professor Usher, Widener...
...with his U. S. confreres. King Alfonso, he recounted, "takes life as it comes and hence he enjoys it to the utmost. . . . I am delighted to tell you that my Sovereign has never been a man of regular habits. He is not so stupid. He has never been a slave to regular diet, regular sleep, regular exercise, or regular anything else. Consequently, at the age of 43, Alfonso is in beautiful health and he has never had a serious illness...