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...army went away in the family carriages piled high with hickory cured hams & bacon, black slave wenches seated high in the carriages wearing the family clothes that had been sacked. Incidentally, all but one of these slave girls returned and brought back the clothes in abject apology...
...From Knoxville to Washington came William Andrew Johnson, 79, in the charge of secret service men. No prisoner was William Andrew but an honored guest, sent for by the President who had read in the newspapers that he was a onetime slave of President Andrew Johnson and his ambition was to meet President Franklin Roosevelt. Hobbling into the White House on an old cane, he hobbled out an hour later with two canes, one of them silver-headed, inscribed "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Said William Andrew to the press: "They let me in and the President had me sit down...
...Democratic appointees ruled the Court and it was the turn of Whig-Republicans to chafe and roar. When Democratic Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, onetime slave owner, handed down his Dred Scott decision preserving Western territories to slavery despite the will of Congress, a rising Republican named Abraham Lincoln went up & down the land denouncing it, demanding that the President and Congress reverse it, calling for appointment of new, right-thinking Justices. As President, Lincoln carried his feud to the point of ordering an Army fort commander to ignore a writ of habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice Taney...
...Most of its major scenes are plucked straight from the novel. On his wedding day, Wang Lung (Paul Muni), son of a poor farmer (Charles Grapewin), goes to the Great House to wed the bride that has been chosen for him. She is Olan (Luise Rainer), a meek, silent slave whose outward role is abnegation but whose soul is resolute. She is the pivot on which the picture turns. Hardly changing a facial muscle, in the two and a quarter hours The Good Earth runs, Actress Rainer manages to make her every thought and action as clear as crystal. Silently...
...factory people are dirty and ignorant and that the salesmen are back-slapping parasites whose function is to force their customers to buy things they neither need nor want. The unfortunate clerk who pores over his account books from dawn to dusk is in a blind alley and the slave of his work. "These", says the senior, "are not the things I want to do; surely somewhere in the business world is a job for a college man, perhaps a job I never heard of, perhaps in 'office work' or 'management...