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Smathers came through handsomely. He made a big name for himself in prosecuting a Florida white-slave case. During World War II he served as a Marine officer in .the Pacific. After the war, the Senator helped his protege run for Congress. Smathers got elected to the House, and pleased his mentor by voting in the New Dealing Pepper tradition...
Last month, the U.N. Economic and Social Council heard charges that the economy of Soviet Russia is based on slave labor. Next day, the Times front page carried the charges under a two-column headline. Later, a special U.N. committee on slavery listened to a report asserting that certain practices of forced contract labor and the plight of immigrant Mexican and West Indian laborers in the U.S. added up to slave labor in the U.S. Next day, the front page of the New York Times, in exactly the same spot where the earlier story appeared, and in exactly the same...
...report on slave labor in the Soviet Union had asserted that slave labor forces, supervised by the secret police, accounted for 12.5% of Russia's timber production, 10% of her furniture and kitchenware and 40% of her chromium ores. It also said that the categories of persons listed by the M.V.D. as criminals to be used for forced labor included: liberals, members of Jewish organizations, mystics, industrialists, owners of large houses, persons who have been in the diplomatic service and relatives of persons who have escaped abroad...
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Coit. A spirited biography of the great ante bellum Sauth Carolinian who, as Congressman, Secretary of War and Vice President, was the champion of states' rights and the South's slave-owning aristocracy (TIME, March...
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Coit. A spirited biography of the great ante bellum South Carolinian who, as Congressman, Secretary of War and Vice President, was the outspoken champion of states' rights and the South's slave-owning aristocracy (TIME, March...