Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magnificent weasel. The Northern bloc, which believed that Congress' power to legislate "human rights" is limitless, could accept it-if it wanted to. So could Southern politicians who firmly believe that certain Negro rights are matters which the Constitution leaves to the states...
...Sims of Tennessee, followed with similar amendments. Cried Sillers: "Give us the right to govern our own fundamental affairs!" Then ex-Congressman Andrew J. Biemiller, of Wisconsin, a onetime Socialist who helped manage Norman Thomas' campaign in 1932, a colleague of Humphrey on the platform committee, presented the Northern minority report on civil rights...
...northern Greece, Communist General Markos continued his stubborn defense of his Mount Grammos stronghold, which six government divisions were attacking. Markos' men cut off part of a convoy and burned alive 16 wounded soldiers caught in it. Then he broadcast a "peace offer"-which Athens, deeming it a fake, rejected...
...McNaughton, Gromyko confided that he hadn't been able to get a decent apple since he arrived in the U.S. Agricultural Expert Wallace asked General McNaughton to suggest a couple of first rate Canadian varieties for the Russian. "Well," McNaughton drawled, "we have Mclntosh Reds-also the Northern...
During its first two years, Fellowship Church was sustained by an annual grant of $3,600 from the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church (Northern). Now one-third of its $19,000 yearly budget is contributed by the congregation, the rest by friends and 185 "national associates" (who include such kindly lights as Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Harper Sibley, president of the United Council of Church Women). In addition to his white Co-Pastor Robert Meyners, Thurman is assisted by a Nisei Methodist who preaches once a month...