Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half years ago. after a tour in Alaska where he hunted big Northern brown bear, he became vice chief of staff and No. 2 man in the Air Force. Last year, when Vandenberg was out of action for months recuperating from surgery, Nate Twining ran the Air Force in all but name, distinguished himself for evenhandedness and loyalty to Vandenberg's policies. Twining is near retirement age. President Eisenhower was thus able to appoint him for two years instead of the usual four, and still reserve the chance to appoint youngish (46) General Lauris Norstad, commander...
Humes's life illustrates the price the Northern Negro often pays for his state of semi-equality. As a citizen, the Negro in the North, by & large, enjoys full rights: everywhere except in the border states, he is equal in the schools and in most public services. His great fight in the last decade has been for simple, decent treatment in everyday life. In this fight, he has made marked but uneven progress...
...years ago, for example. Northern hotels and restaurants that would openly turn away Negro patrons were in the majority; now they are definitely in the minority. The facile old excuse?"Personally, I don't care, but the customers just wouldn't stand for Negroes to come in here"?has been proved empty again & again. The chief trouble is that the Negro can never be sure: he is in a constant guerrilla war, always half-expecting to be snubbed by this desk clerk or that headwaiter, or fobbed off with a gentlemen's-agreement type of spiel that...
Retired President Britton Budd of the Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois was invited to last week's party, too. He could remember helping Bishop Sheil found the organization that is his chief monument: the Catholic Youth Organization (C.Y.O.). As a young priest, Father Sheil served part-time as a chaplain at the Cook County jail. He walked many a doomed man to the execution chamber, and once a "mad-dog killer" said to him near the end: "Father, why do they wait until now before they start to care?" Later, when Father Sheil was consecrated a bishop...
Devoted Readers. The Confederacy took full advantage of such readymade intelligence. Southern sympathizers and agents floated copies of Northern newspapers down the Mississippi in bottles, or simply crossed the lines with them. Shortly before the battle of Chickamauga, Confederate General Braxton Bragg was delighted to read in the New York Times a story about a scheme for bluffing part of his forces out of their positions around Chattanooga. Bragg, forewarned by one of the country's most reliable journals, refused to be bluffed...