Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Division in the Justice Department; 2) establish a bipartisan commission to investigate civil-rights violations; 3) permit the Attorney General to take civil action to protect voting rights. The bill, after weeks of delaying tactics by Southern Democrats, was forced out of committee by a group of Republicans and Northern Democrats led by Missouri's Dick Boiling in an 8-3 vote...
Hopes for Coal. Dave McDonald's proudest achievement since becoming president is knocking the wage differential from the contracts of southern Steelworkers, who since 1953 have been getting the same pay as northern workers. Another sizable achievement is that, behind the scenes, he had much to do with arranging the tricky merger of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. last year. Ahead he has two strong ambitions, 1) to be invited to address the United Mine Workers, and 2) to bring John L. Lewis back to the newly united house of labor...
...silent apprehension, four of the island's five political parties vied in pre-election demands for the removal of the 5,000 U.S. troops from strategic Keflavik air base. Last week, full of such talk, Icelanders went to the polls in the uninterrupted light of the long northern...
...paralyzing tax increases seem doomed to defeat. But that does not mean that Earl will give up. When, after the hard-won reconsideration, his pari-mutuel tax bill was beaten by one vote, Earl took another tack: he let it be known that he was thinking of letting a Northern syndicate into Louisiana to run competition to New Orleans' Fair Grounds race track...
...meat of the film, however, is the chase. Disney dug up some fine period rolling stock and set it racing madly along a stretch of the antiquated Tallulah Falls Railroad in northern Georgia. The epic sight of the bright-colored, majestic eight-wheelers, belching smoke and spinning their drivers, is enough to make moviegoers thoroughly dissatisfied with the pallid diesel streamliners of today...