Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inventing machines estranged himself from nature, who is now having her terrible revenge by making him the slave of his own inventions...
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...unique notice: Wanted, a soprano to sing Ai'da. . . . Margaret Matzenauer, famed contralto, had been engaged to sing the role of Amneris (Egyptian princess) with an otherwise obscure troupe in Manhattan's gaudy Mecca Temple on May 9. But to get itself a soprano for the slave girl's part the management had decided to resort to an open contest, the winner to get $150 for her performance. . . . Housewife Wallack had never sung Ai'da, had never sung in any opera. But she had studied singing for two years, had a smattering of singer...
...just as politicians today weasel on Prohibition. He favored settlement of the question in each new State by "popular sovereignty." His quarrel with Buchanan arose because he thought the President had gone over bag & baggage to the extreme pro-slavery camp in trying to make Kansas a slave State. Declared Senator Douglas of the Lecompton constitution: "It's none of my business which way the slavery clause is decided. I care not whether it is voted up or down...
Died. Archibald James Carey, 62. Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; in Chicago. Son of a plantation slave, Bishop Carey was educated at Atlanta University, Chicago Theological Seminary and University of Chicago...