Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Braimah accused his own secretary of salting away thousands of dollars in graft money. Braimah also told the judges that a contractor had offered him ?4,000 for a big road-building contract in the Northern Territories. The minister had agreed, but a fortnight later the contractor stormed into his office, complained bitterly: "A Greek has got the contract by paying the Prime Minister...
...Pacific, the destroyers struck with all their weapons-depth charges, torpedoes, guns-and realized all their manifold possibilities as warships. In the night Battle of Surigao Strait, they even had a chance of fighting in the old textbook fashion. Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf, cruising at the northern end of the strait with the U.S.'s older battleships, learned that a big Japanese force, including two battleships, was headed for the strait from the west to turn the tide in the battle for Leyte. Oldendorf corked up the mouth of the strait with his old battlewagons, sent destroyers...
...Party took its stand on Cecil Rhodes's dictum, "Equal rights for all civilized men." Hugginsmen believe that a color bar is still necessary in primitive Africa, but gradually they hope to remove it, as the Negroes "come of age." Opposing Huggins are the diehard Confederates. Many of Northern Rhodesia's white copper miners are Boer immigrants who support the segregation policies of South Africa's Daniel Malan. Only 64,000 whites-and 444 Africans -voted last week. They decided for the Federalists, and "racial partnership," by better than 4 to 1 vote. The results in terms...
When these words and about 2,300 others like them appeared in a letter sent last month by the 26-member General Council of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) to its 8,000' congregations, many a shocked Presbyterian-and many a non-Presbyterian-took pen in hand to write his protest. Last week, at a conference of Protestant home mission leaders at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., the Rev. Dr. Eugene C. Blake, the Northern Presbyterians' stated clerk (i.e., No. 2 official), stood up to defend the letter and add a few words...
...nine will not represent Harvard as a team, but will be part of a northern squad which will participate in a Yankee-Rebel game on the 30th. They will be coached on the blackboard and on the field starting the 22nd and will continue until...