Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing sure to arouse a Southern Congressman, besides affronted Southern womanhood, is the perennial anti-poll tax bill. Last week Southern Congressmen were thus aroused. They spoke their usual bitter words, went down to their usual defeat when House Republicans joined with Northern Democrats and passed the measure...
Tokyo radio also chattered nervously about the other side of northern Borneo, and reported the area around the city of Sandakan receiving increasing Allied naval attention...
...William H. Seward minted a round, shiny phrase. He described the difference between Northern wage labor and Southern slave labor as an "irrepressible conflict." Later, Seward's friends explained that he had not meant that war was inevitable, much" less that it was desirable. Abraham Lincoln profoundly believed that war was undesirable, and hoped that it was avoidable, when he came into the Presidency and put Seward in his Cabinet. But Seward's phrase had caught on. Hotheads on both sides used it. By the time the shooting started, civil war was indeed "irrepressible...
...York County Medical Society (which, like most Northern medical societies, admits Negroes) protested. So did Dr. Wright. The crusading press attacked A.C.S. editorially and a New York assemblyman prepared a resolution to invoke the state's new anti-race-discrimination...
Frontier Mother. George Norris' father was a farmer living in the "Black Swamp" country of northern Ohio. George was only three when his father died. But he remembered his mother well. In his recollection of her, Mary Magdalene Norris emerges as the archetype of frontier woman...