Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most medical drugs, vaccines and antitoxins and tobacco. Dr. Pease, who got the New York subways to ban smoking in 1909, always tells of a horse he knew who got tea mixed in its feed and jumped off a cliff. "I have had a man." he said, "a nicotine slave, writhing upon the floor of my office crying, 'Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful? Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful?' He could not break the habit and he passed on, in agony. . . . My adopted daughter [attractive Mrs. Audrey Ulric Pease...
...Hutton, rich stockbroker and board chairman of General Foods Corp., likes to speak his mind on business and politics. Sometimes Mr. Hutton's phraseology lets him in for public trouble. Last summer, in sounding off against soak-the-rich taxes, he declared that today he considered himself "70% slave and 30% free." Thereupon Columnist Westbrook Pegler mused: "This undoubtedly is true on the basis of his tax returns, but there is no denying that such slavery has its little compensations. Mr. Hutton's slave quarters in Palm Beach might be called a model cabin. His 16,000-acre...
...Mandates" and "The Drug and Slave Trade" will be the subjects of short addresses by Cyril C. Means '38 and Roger F. Duncan '38 at a meeting of the League of Nations Study Group of the Peace Society Monday evening...
...Boston's Blue Book will be no man's slave...
...land, people, and industry in order to coordinate all the factors in production, or government must allow individual initiative relatively complete freedom. It is an inescapable choice which lies before us. Yet the present administration does not clearly recognize this fact, apparently thinks it is possible to exist half-slave and half-free...