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...high time that the honest, thrifty, debt-avoiding majority of the people of this country rise up in arms against the flood of inflationary, contract-breaking propaganda that is being stuffed down the throats of this nation...
...iron girdle which jealous Hungarian knights used to lock around their ladies before riding off to the Crusades. In this 20th Century, proposed the Awakened Magyars, "The key to each girl's girdle is to be kept by her father or other competent authority until her marriage contract is signed, when it is to be delivered to the husband...
...Mexican cadet corps has embarrassed and shocked the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer organization fully as deeply as it has the Mexican people. As a result of this actor's deplorable behavior, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has removed him . . . not only from Viva Villa but . . . canceled his long term contract...
Even religion and marriage are to be explained as a result of this original slave-making contract. Religion originated in veneration for former heroes always of the slave-owning class and was perpetuated by the slave-holders through the agency of a subsidized priesthood, as a means of keeping the slaves in check. Marriage owes its origin to the fact that the offspring of slaves had commercial value and for this reason were given prolonged care during childhood. This required that the parents remain together over a considerable period of time, and so led gradually to the institution of marriage...
...origin of institutions hoping to gain acceptance for it. Too much anthropological evidence has been gathered, too many facts have been garnered concerning primitive society, to allow the plausibility of any account which omits them. Unfortunately Mr. Fruchs' account is completely innocent of any anthropological data; his social contract is pure hypothesis and the deductions from it are entirely a priori. Worse than this, there is no attempt to work out the theory in detail and to explanation is offered for the existence of trading, religion, and marriage in communities in which there is no record of slavery...