Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rayburn consulted with Northern liberal Democrats, who warned him that the Republican plan would be politically difficult for them to oppose. Late one afternoon, Rayburn went over to the other side of the Capitol for a heart-to-heart talk with Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson. They agreed that some sort of civil rights bill had to be passed at this session; otherwise, the party-splitting issue would return to plague the Democrats in Election Year, 1958. Next morning Lyndon went to work to find out just what kind of a jury trial compromise could get past the Senate...
...have not forgotten that TIME [March 1, 1954] was the first national magazine to describe cystic fibrosis-the "new" disease -to lay people. Your recent story is a very competent exposition of the latest advances made by research in this disease. On behalf of the Greater New York-Northern New Jersey Chapter of the National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation-our heartfelt thanks...
...which, after years of making 100% civil rights an article of faith, were now willing to settle for less. Editorialists and cartoonists who only a few weeks before had been denouncing the Senate's weak bill were now denouncing the Republicans for opposing it (see cartoons). Liberal Northern Democrats, let off the hook by the retreat of the N.A.A.C.P., the A.D.A., et al, delightedly accepted the Senate bill and the unexpected opportunity to avoid a North-South Democratic Party split...
...Senate and House committees moved separately but on parallel lines toward a "compromise" immigration bill. Immigration to the U.S. would stay just about where it was, at 155,000 a year, parceled out in national quotas that favored immigrants from Northern and Western Europe as against harder-pressed people from Southern and Central Europe. As for the 24,600 Hungarian refugees "on parole," the House Judiciary Committee considered the President's request for permanent status, voted it down by 15 to 11. The Senate committee ignored it completely. So the 24,600 Hungarians-"freedom fighters" was once the term...
MOONSHINE WHISKY accounts for 25% of U.S. liquor consumption, says Licensed Beverage Industries Inc., and bootleg output of about 76 million gallons a year costs almost $1 billion in lost taxes. Law officers nipped 25,608 moonshine stills in 1956. Palatable Southern moonshine is now going into northern cities, is often used to refill bottles of name brands and sold in bars...