Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elbowed my way back on the scene after writing of the final draft. The truth is I served on the final drafting committee at the request of Senator George, who acted as chairman of the caucus. You also stated that not a Southerner rose in reply to the Northern Senators who attacked the manifesto. I spoke for the manifesto after Senator Lehman had opposed it. Since that time, several other Southerners have spoken...
...workers would lose their social benefits, and called out the Guardia Civil, Pamplona's workers paraded the city's sunny streets in their best clothes. The strike fever spread to the Basque city of Bilbao (scene of a 1953 stoppage of shipbuilders), Tolosa, San Sebastian and other northern towns. Thus far only workers in small dispersed industries were affected, but when metalworkers in Barcelona walked off their jobs, the government got tough. Army General Felipe Acedo, governor of Barcelona, promptly jailed strikers and closed the struck factories...
While all the legal proposals are designed simply to expedite enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment efficiently and speedily, they are under sharp attack from Southern lawmakers who are wary of any increase in Federal power. On the other side, many Northern liberals feel that the proposals are not stringent enough...
...Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd., has held the pipeline franchise for almost two years, and Clint Murchison once grandly declared that the building of it would be "the major achievement of my life." But Murchison had trouble financing the deal. The line had to run through an uninhabited area of northern Ontario, which called for a subsidy from the Canadian government and a measure of acquiescence on the part of competing U.S gas companies...
...addition to individual alumni who have objected, the Princeton Alumni of Northern New Jersey as a body wired the officers of the Whig-Cliosophic Society asking them to reconsider their decision to invite Hiss, a convicted perjurer, to speak at a meeting on "The Meaning of Geneva." The alumni claim that this action has seriously discredited Princeton and will hurt the annual giving campaign among Princeton alumni...