Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slave Law." As the convention began all this wealth, power and ballyhoo was committed to relentless war on the Taft-Hartley...
...despoiled a Scottish maid between the act of shooting grouse and angling for landlocked salmon." Grenadine, herself part Negro with Creole trimmings, grows up with a gorilla for a playmate; her first word, at seven months, is "man." She marries the governor of Havana, then becomes a slave trader, millionaire racehorse owner, inventor of the cigaret and, after the first 100 pages, dull to read about. Merely exaggerating the absurd is no sure way to hilarity; satire must make its own kind of sense and this makes little or none. Readers will admire Ruark's choice of target...
...became Basil the Sightless and Ivan Kalita, called Moneybag, who first gave Moscow something like an ordered economy. The young town was repeatedly overrun by the Golden Horde of Tartars, one of whose reasons for coming back again & again was Moscow's women, much coveted on the world slave markets. Sultan Ahmed I is said to have asked his eldest son one day: "My Osman, wilt thou conquer Crete for me?" Whereupon Osman replied: "What have I to do with Crete? I will conquer the land of the white Muscovite maidens...
...Russian slave class, as Dallin analyzes it, has three principal divisions: 1) habitual criminals; 2) dethroned bureaucrats; 3) politicals. In the pariah society that suffers a living death behind the barbed wire of the camp's, the criminals are the elite, bureaucrats usually wangle the cushy administrative jobs, political offenders most often are worked to death by a deliberate policy of bloodless liquidations. A political offender need not be a man or woman who wants to toss a bomb at Stalin, but merely one who tells a disrespectful joke about...
Biggest Business. Slaves and slave camps are the private property of the MVD, and their productivity has made the Soviet secret police the world's biggest business. Slaves build electric power dams, factories, canals, railroads. They mine coal, iron, gold. By Dallin's estimate, they represent at least one out of every four Soviet workers. Since they can be regimented without appeal, worked to death without mercy and paid little or nothing, they are the Soviet Government's most profitable labor...