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Mayor General Lytle Brown, Chief of Army Engineers, investigated contract labor camps in the Vicksburg area, last fortnight reported to Secretary of War Hurley that no "slavery in its most hideous form" existed there, as alleged by the A. F. of L. Here and there he did find "bad spots," long hours, low wages but no thrashings.-ED. Wilkes's Booth
Thomas Carroll and Holt Ross, A. F. of L. investigators, charged that: 1) "slavery in its most hideous form" existed in these camps; 2) workers were flogged with plow lines, beaten with pistol butts to maintain discipline; 3) men were compelled to work up to 18 hr. per day, often without overtime pay; 4) wages ranged from 75? to $2 per day; 5) workers were forced to deal at company commissaries, pay exorbitant prices; 6 ) from each man's weekly wage $4.50 for food, $1 for tent rent, 50? for cook hire were arbitrarily deducted by the contractors...
...still a stickler for proper English usage. Now he had apparently been pained beyond endurance, for he wrote: "Somewhere there cumbers this fair earth with his loathsome presence a man who for the common good should have been destroyed in early childhood. He is the originator of the hideous vulgarism of using 'contact' as a verb-We contacted Mr. Smith.' ... So long as we can meet, get in touch with, make the acquaintance of, be introduced to, call on, interview, or talk to people, there can be no apology for 'contact...
...accident a Manhattan physician. Dr. Lucy Du Bois Porter Sutton, 40, has discovered a quick palliative if not a certain cure for St. Vitus's Dance, hideous childhood disease. Victims twitch, quiver, quake and grimace uncouthly. The posturings resemble a grotesque dance like the oldtime "shimmy" and "Charleston." During the ignorant Middle Ages victims of the disease were taken to "dance" before images of St. Vitus, patron of comedians.* It was believed that those who danced before St. Vitus would be certain of good health during the following year. Hence the general name for the disease. The medical term...
...dues." Its president, a Mrs. Olga Plater, and her husband, Albert Browel Plater (who in 1917 had been ac cused of impersonating a Russian count, a U. S. Army captain), lived in a $50,000 home near Detroit. Last week the American Friendship Society was involved in a sordid, hideous mess. In a shallow grave beside a garage in Clarksburg, W. Va., were found the bodies of two women and three children. In Clarksburg jail cowered a fat, beady-eyed, flabby little man, battered and bruised into a confession of his sadism. Police in many States followed clues to other...