Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thurmond has never campaigned on a "white supremacy" platform. He has consistently urged constitutional government of the U.S., with the 48 components maintaining their sovereign rights. Of course, it makes a more sensational article . . . when you drag in the Negro question-and probably sells more copies in your Northern stronghold where they can continue their criticism of the Southerners for their oppression of the poor blacks...
...that year Charles Sumner, 1830, and ex-President Adams joined with other Harvard graduates to form the Free Soil Party. College politics then became tangled for a few years; the Board of Overseers, for instance, was a strange mixture of Northern Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats. But by 1860, the dominant Republican sentiment, which has lasted down to the present, was clear. A poll of the Class of 1860 turned up nine Democrats, 23 Constitutional Unionists, and 74 Republicans. The Unionists held the College's first torchlight parade shortly before election that year, carrying signs such as "Bell (the party...
...This meeting makes history," said Minister Vougt, a bluff, 53-year-old ex-newspaperman. "Never before has the joint study of northern defense reached such concrete form...
...Palestine last week, an earnest gesture of peace became a clever pretext for war. Last September, U.N.'s Count Bernadotte made a ruling on the hotly contested supply routes in the northern tip of the Negeb desert. The Egyptian army, he said, could use the roads for six hours each afternoon to supply their forces in the interior across an east-west road running under Jewish guns. The Jews, in turn, would have six hours each morning to supply their settlements in the Negeb across a north-south road blocked by Arab troops. When the Egyptians rejected the ruling...
...hurrah] Marshall!" He drove to the headquarters of the U.S. military mission -nicknamed the "Temple of Knowledge" by sour Greek officers-for talks with the U.S. staff. To correspondents, U.S. officers explained that no decisive action was possible this year because winter had already come to the mountains in northern Greece. All that could be done was to contain the guerrillas, and prepare a spring offensive. Remarked Ambassador Grady: "The situation ... is not completely satisfactory...