Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...territory. During 1846, the U.S. occupied the Pacific coast from the 49th parallel to Lower California, and became a continental power. At the same time the stage was cleared for a new issue: Who was going to run this continental power-the free-labor North and West, or the slave-labor South? "At some time between August and December, 1846," says Historian DeVoto, "the Civil War had begun...
...could bring them about. Through good weather and bad, in sickness, defeat, in agony of spirit and against the dull weight of ignorance and fear, the soul of each man must be nourished to undertake of his own free will works which in their total are bigger than the slave-built wall of China and in their daily demands as warming as the building of a home. Coercion cannot order the materials; bombast cannot inspire the efforts; the fear of death cannot release the imagination's shortcuts or bring about the emotions' quick ability to generate...
...lighter side of Harriet is sometimes lifelike, sometimes merely Life With Fatherlike. Its serious moments-the capture of a fugitive slave in the Stowe parlor; Harriet delivering a big, meant-to-be-timely speech-are poorly contrived, patly inserted. But Actress Hayes, acting with her usual skill, aging with her usual art, creates, if not a great and rounded woman, a bustling housewife who is also sore beset...
Most exotic group of convicted objectors (7%) were Negro "Moslems," who discard their "slave names" when they embrace their new religion and presently get new ones (like John Jones Bey) from Mecca. Their reason for refusal to serve was simple: In Mecca, war has not been declared...
...latest series of reactionary blasts is one-time presidential candidate Alf Landon, whose shallow mind is unable to discriminate between bureaucracy of a Nazi slave state and the government by delegated authority in a social-security democracy. The old-guard Kansas Republican picked Henry A. Wallace as his target. Seldom has there been an attack as malicious, insidious, and completely unconstructive as this short-sighted diatribe directed at a political figure recognized by our Allies, from Left to Right, as the spokesman for the common...