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...expressionless. He was Lauchlin Currie, President Roosevelt's administrative assistant, sent on a fact-finding trip to China. Watching the mass of labor, Lauchlin Currie observed that the building of the pyramids must have looked like this. But in Chiang Kai-shek's China there was no slave driver with a lash. The job was bossed by a Chinese civil engineer (a graduate of the University of Illinois) who directed the 75,000 by blowing a whistle...
...palmy days of the Defender were mostly over when Mrs. Abbott No. 2 appeared. In its million-dollar-a-year heyday (1919-28) the Defender brought Publisher Abbott (son of a Georgia slave) fame, social position, a Rolls-Royce, a Hearstian house filled with Hearstian gimcracks...
...less optomistic side was McLaughlin, who reminded his listeners that feeding Belgium would only build up the health of what Germany has made a virtual slave population. He feels that the ruthless tactics of Hitler are more effective in controlling the captive nations than American food...
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SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL-Willa Gather-Knopf...