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...Southern states shared Oklahoma's hopes & fears. At a conference of five Southern governors, Florida's Governor Millard Caldwell put forward a plan he had long been plumping for. Since few states could afford to build separate professional schools for Negroes, why didn't the five states get together and take over a going campus, turn it into a great university* to serve all their Negroes...
...Democrats took their place. Splinter parties were formed on such frenetic issues as a fanatical prejudice against Masons (the Anti-Masons), or a dislike for foreign-born citizens (the Americans or "Know-Nothings," who carried six states in 1854, captured 22% of the popular vote in 1856 for Millard Fillmore). In 1844, the anti-slavery Liberty Party, with a piddling 62,300 votes, drew enough Whig support in New York to swing the state and the presidency to Democrat James Polk. Four years later, the Free Soil Party did the same thing for Whig Zachary Taylor...
...ceremony, Florida's Governor Millard F. Caldwell formally turned over to the U.S. Government 270,720 acres of the Everglades' sawgrass flats, jungly hummocks, winding waterways and mangrove swamps. Harry Truman beamed, spoke pleasantly about "the wise use of our natural resources...
Newest members of the honorary scholastic society at the 'Cliffe are Eleanor M. Millard of Whitman Hall and Chicago, Marjory A. Reynolds of Briggs Hall and Lexington, Kentucky, Marilyn R. Starkman of Bertram Hall and Wakefield, and Ellen G. Stearns of Bertram Hall and Scarsdale, New York...
...Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland also had his day of triumph. At the Reading (Pa.) Fair, his 725-lb. boar was champion in the open Hampshire class...