Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from his father's sleepy hostelry in Black Thread, Connecticut, to the top rank of the "Mine Hosts" of America. His vicissitudes in the course that progress constitute the thread the story, and Myron's whole life in 1897 to 1933 is bound up with his career as the slave of hospitality. His whole life is told in terms of hotels even his emotional experiences through his marriage (Effie May is totally devoid of color), and his musings are extricably bound up with ice water, phones in every room, and room service. The only variant note is struck the character...
Senator Nye used warmer language: "If what seems to have been the policy of NRA is continued the plunderers may well adopt 'The Last Round-Up' as their theme song and trample under heel whatever remains of independent business and make the consumer a mere slave...
...number of historic incidents that Artist Rivera managed to crowd on his hard plaster panels was impressive. To be quickly identified were Dutch settlers purchasing Manhattan at the point of a matchlock; a slave trader lashing a black; the Boston Massacre with Crispus Attucks in the centre; Thomas Paine and the "Rights of Man"; the Declaration of Independence; Thomas Jefferson; the Whiskey Rebellion; the Annexation of Texas; gold in California; John Brown arming the slaves; John Brown on the gallows; the Ku Klux Klan; Karl Marx-on through riots, strikes, lynchings, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler (with a pansy...
...unequal division of slaves and the fact that some of the victors received none, forced free men into competition with slave labor, resulted in their eventual bankruptcy, led to their being hired by richer men, and so led finally to the division into capitalistic and wage-earning classes. A few of the poor free men being more ingenious than the rest, turned then talents to the manufacture of goods offered first for barter and later for sale. Here we have the beginning of the artisan class. At a later date the merchant class sprang up to facilitate the process...
Even religion and marriage are to be explained as a result of this original slave-making contract. Religion originated in veneration for former heroes always of the slave-owning class and was perpetuated by the slave-holders through the agency of a subsidized priesthood, as a means of keeping the slaves in check. Marriage owes its origin to the fact that the offspring of slaves had commercial value and for this reason were given prolonged care during childhood. This required that the parents remain together over a considerable period of time, and so led gradually to the institution of marriage...