Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symbol of their alliance was the Taft-Hartley Act, the Republican revision of the Wagner Act. Truman and labor agreed that Taft-Hartley was a slave labor act and (as the Democratic Party platform put it last week) operated "in an arbitrary manner...
...Curt Heinburg, economic counselor, had served as a chief in the political division under Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop. He had worked on the "solution of the Jewish problem in Serbia," i.e., had helped deport Jews to slave labor, concentration camps, or death. He resigned after the investigations began...
What has happened to them all? As many as 40% are dead, according to NATO estimates. Many are still working as slave laborers. A year after the war ended, Russian sources indicated that 2,800,000 Germans, Italians, Japanese, Hungarians and French were working on a northern link of the Trans-Siberian railway. Other prisoners are held over the heads of satellite countries as hostages...
Slumping Harem. The ocean bred its gay as well as its devil dogs. One of the gayest, Alexander Hare, a rich English trader, settled on one of the beautiful atolls of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women...
...Novelist Marguerite Steen punched out a 2¼-lb., 1,015-page bundle of picaresque entitled The Sun Is My Undoing. It was all about a lusty, highly unprincipled family named Flood, who built up a tidy 18th-century fortune in the slave trade, and it sold more than 600,000 copies in all editions. Three years ago, in Twilight on the Floods, Author Steen brought the family up to the late 19th century, and showed them ebbing into downright respectability. Now, in Jehovah Blues, she puts a short and almost dispirited postscript to the story; the Floods have evaporated...