Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vehement protest against the recent resolution by the National Student Association's staff committee to sever relations with the International Union of Students was registered last night by Lawrence M. Jaffa 2D, chairman of the NSA's Northern New England Regional Division, and a member of the four-man board appointed in December to consider NSA-IUS affiliation...
...week's end, they had achieved at least part of their purpose. Their revolt had spread defeatism in the Democratic Party to such an extent that Northern labor leaders had also begun to suggest privately that Harry Truman withdraw...
...Said one overloaded Livernois dealer: "Somebody's going to take one hell of a licking on this street. It looks like there's going to be more finance people operating the used car business than there are models on the lots." Cashless Customers. What caused the drop? Northern dealers blamed bad winter weather and increased new car production...
...Wind. It was a disaster that had made Haussermann a miner. In 1911 a typhoon swept northern Luzon, flooded the tiny Benguet Co.'s only mill, bankrupted the owners, and left the Bank of the Philippine Islands with a worthless batch of loans. To retrieve its stake, the bank picked Haussermann, Benguet's lawyer, who had come to the islands in 1898 as a second lieutenant, had stayed to become an assistant attorney general in the new Philippine's government...
...always to be expected that new organizations will stumble about a good bit and bicker considerably before developing into adulthood. Though NSA in beyond the stumbling period, the recent conference did have its share of bickering, for it was the first bi-regonal meeting of the Northern and Southern New England regionals. The split along the North-South lines over NSA's position in regard to partisan politics appeared to be the cause of the stalemate that prevented the conference from being effective. Actually the squabbling arose only out of the real point of failure: lack of organization...