Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When asked what he considered the most important thing learned from the field trip, Pettigrew responded, "There is strong support behind the groups that are participating in mob violence. The Northern press ignores this...
...industries are swarming to Florida's balmy business climate, with the added incentive of no state income tax. Furthermore, Florida's resortlike climate is sure bait for hard-to-get engineers and topflight executives. When starting its West Palm Beach plant, Pratt & Whitney advertised for engineers in Northern newspapers, offered them a choice of jobs in the Midwest, New England, Florida, California. Florida led the other areas combined...
...19th century, Sicily was considered (by northern Italians) nothing more than "a paradise of poor devils." But no more. Since World War II, long-neglected Sicily has suddenly started racing ahead far faster than the rest of Italy - or for that matter almost any other part of Europe...
...claimed that the Civil Rights Act was "rammed through" Congress by legislators interested in swaying the Negro vote in Northern urban-industrial states. Thurmond delayed the process last summer by filibustering before the Senate for 24 hours...
...give him a second wind. Then he could be off again on what, by the nature of the position he has staked out for himself, is bound sometimes to be a lonely way. Says Jack Kennedy: "An independent position is the only place for me. I'm a Northern Democrat who has some sense of restraint. I do pretty well in Massachusetts, and if that turns out to be typical of the nation -well, that will be fine...