Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rousseau: "I was sure of that. It is my test of character. There you have the despotic instinct of men. They do not like cats because the cat is free, and will never consent to become a slave. He will do nothing to your order, as the other animals...
...Communists got control of China and/or India. To become stronger than the U.S., the Communists would have to hold China and/or India for quite a few years -perhaps as many as 30. The Japanese found that the slave labor of industrially undeveloped countries did not pay off much in the first year or two. But the Japanese did multiply the industrial production of Manchuria in a decade. If Moscow had 400 million Chinese or Indians and their resources working for it for 30 years, the Communist power would probably become stronger than...
Died. Richard Robert Wright,* 92, slave boy who grew up to be the top U.S. Negro banker, president of Georgia State Industrial College, a U.S. Army major in the Spanish-American War, and friend of every U.S. President since Hayes; in Philadelphia. Spry, spare Wright was founder and active head of Philadelphia's Citizens & Southern Bank & Trust Co. vengefully named after a Georgia bank that had once insulted his daughter...
...estimates I heard about Russians kept in slave labor camps ranged from 3 to 15 million. Usually the state does not bother to hide slave laborers (Russian or foreign); they are seen working everywhere. Only in Moscow are there occasional attempts to hide ugly facts. Once I drove past notorious Lubyanka prison with an Intourist guide. I asked deliberately: "What is that large, impressive building over there?" "Oh," she replied, "people live there...
...that his action was a reversal of policy. Twelve months ago Harry Truman had taken a merciless rawhiding from organized labor after he broke the railroad strike and proposed drastic emergency anti-strike action such as jail terms for recalcitrant labor leaders, and Army conscription of workers who balked. "Slave bill" had been labor's name for that measure, as it was for the Taft-Hartley bill. Labor's rallying cry then was: "Down with Truman" (TIME, June 10, 1946). Cool heads in Congress-notably Bob Taft's-had got Harry Truman off that hook by beating...