Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Union in the Civil War. The people of West Virginia refused to secede with Virginia and formed a separate state. They joined the Union in 1863. Geographically, each of these states is as close to Pennsylvania as it is to Virginia . . . Could it be that those were "Northern tempers" that flared in Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia...
...finally ... his arrest ... I am a Southerner, and I strongly sympathize with the problems of the South, and I appreciate the difficulties that must be met in the slow and inevitable accomplishment of integration. I only regret that such a large and ticklish undertaking must be complicated by the Northern and Southern minorities of gutless, poor-spirited and fanatical trash, inspired by the opportunists who can see money to be made in every human perplexity...
ACROSS the wind-blown plains of eastern Washington, up through the cool, forested hills of northern-Idaho and the mountains and finger valleys of western Montana, men talk in frontier terms of manifest destiny, and call their northwest U.S. land an Inland Empire. It is a towering land, with long, lonely reaches and stupendous, high-country scenery, proud, self-assured and close to its pioneer beginnings. A geographic unit, hemmed by natural barriers, it once almost became a state (as big as all New England, New York, Delaware and Maryland) called Lincoln. Congress approved in 1886, but Grover Cleveland pocket...
Furcolo had an excellent record as a member of the House of Representatives. So good in fact that in 1950 the Washington Press Club chose him as one of the ten best first-term legislators. His voting followed the pattern set by the Northern wing of the Democratic party--strongly in favor of internationalist legislation such as Point Four and Mutual Security Aid, extended reciprocal trade agreements, as well as liberal welfare and social legislation. As a member of the House Armed Services Committee, he continually advocated strong defense appropriations...
Answer to a Prayer. A few months later Billy was ordained a minister by the St. Johns Baptist Association of Northern Florida. He went on to preach "at every cowpath and wagon track in Florida." gained a strong voice, expanded confidence and got a scholarship to Wheaton College near Chicago. There he collected an A.B. in anthropology, an unusual major for a man who still rejects the theory of evolution...