Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eternal frustration of foreigners and the industrious businessmen of northern Italy, Rome's bureaucrats have for years meandered into their offices about 10 o'clock, knocked off for lunch and a snooze about 2, returned from lunch about 6 and remained until 10 to do business with any night owl who wandered by. The new hours: 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. Fanfani himself likes to summon his own aides into conference before 8 a.m., and he hangs on into the night...
...Communists harvested most heavily in the tiny clearings of Finland's northern forests, where impoverished smallholders try to farm their skimpy tracts in the summer and seek lumber-camp jobs the rest of the time. This year, when the big pulp and paper firms had no jobs at all to offer in the pineries, the ruling Agrarians complacently tried to hold the peat-bog farmers and other workers of the land with sky-high agricultural subsidies. The Communists, led by handsome Hertta Kuusinen,* shouted that the men of the forests wanted jobs, not fatter butter prices-and took five...
...tabs on the leaders and chiefs of his native land (where the blacks outnumber whites nearly 400 to 1). He constantly denounced the British plan for forming a federation of Nyasaland and the two Rhodesias (where there are more white settlers), insisted that the Colonial Office continue to rule Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland until the two countries were ready for independence. When the federation went through, Banda sold his practice, moved to the Gold Coast, to Kumasi in the land of the Ashanti. There he became a friend of Kwame Nkrumah and an admirer of Ghana's fight...
...Reconstruction period. Author Daniels argues that U.S. folklore has too gullibly enshrined the popular Southern myth of the carpetbagger as a devilish Yankee loot-and-run artist. In fact, he was sometimes a champion of Negro rights, sometimes a businessman with venture capital to invest, sometimes a restless Northern war veteran with a yen to revisit the South. If the carpetbagger's hand was plunged in the public till, his arm was frequently locked in that of a sly Southern collaborator who was only too happy to share the take. Unfortunately, Author Daniels' carpetsweeping approach to carpetbagger days...
...escaped all injury, except having about three inches torn from the left shoulder of his coat, by a ball from the enemy." General Sherman made him a lieutenant colonel and assistant provost marshal of Memphis, where, even in 1862, blockaded cotton was being feverishly and profitably traded to Northern mills. At Lincoln's command, Littlefield later organized one of the first Negro regiments. By war's end. General Littlefield's character, as well as his uniform, was still nearly "as immaculate...