Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vinegar-sour face, who bowed stiffly to the presiding judge. He was Lieut. General Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen, 72, military governor of Belgium in World War II, accused together with three other members of his occupation regime of causing the execution of 240 hostages, deporting Belgians for slave labor, deporting Jews to death camps...
...army and, once in the East, switch to trading. In 1537, at the age of 28, he sailed for Goa, Portugal's main outpost in India. Before he saw Portugal again, he was to visit all the lands of Asia, to be a merchant, a pirate, a slave, an ambassador and a Jesuit novice...
...require compulsory arbitration as the final step in a utility labor dispute. Chief Justice Fred Vinson and five other justices agreed with them. The justices' reasoning: compulsory arbitration destroys the right to strike, which is guaranteed by the Taft-Hartley Act (frequently denounced by labor as the "slave-labor" act). In a conflict between a federal and a state act, the federal act must be "supreme...
...protesters also rebelled at the description of pre-Civil War Negroes as "a race with exasperating habits" and the characterization of the typical Negro slave as "childlike, improvident, humorous, prevaricating, and superstitious." Finally, they objected to the occasional use of "blacks" to refer to Negroes...
...house during her early schooldays. Bess, loath to have Margaret stray far from home, encouraged them all to come and play on Mrs. Wallace's lawn, where there were swings and a slide to lure them, and in the capacious Wallace attic and basement. There was an old slave quarters in a backyard close by, which had done time as a henhouse in its later years. There Margaret and her friends organized a club known as the "Henhouse Hicks." The Hicks furnished their clubhouse with castout furniture collected pictures of such girlhood idols as Clark Gable and Nelson Eddy...