Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the past six months, representatives of the Seattle police department and the Seattle Urban League have been conducting a survey of Negro crime, in order to develop programs of rehabilitation and prevention. Northern communities have to shed their finger-pointing and false pride, and realize that they too have a responsibility for correcting flagrant racial situations, particularly in housing...
Cigar-chewing, face-screwing Howard Smith had only begun to operate. It was a bill on which Northern Republicans and Southern conservative Democrats, disenchanted with each other since last year's civil rights fight, could come together. Smith helped round up some 60 dissident Southerners. Minority Leader Joe Martin caucused the Republicans, kept them in line behind the Eisenhower version of the bill. As debate opened at midweek, Republican strength had become so obvious that Sam Rayburn gave up the battle and ducked off to Virginia to crown Her Majesty, the queen of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival...
...necessary defensive measure against massive surprise attack, and it follows, therefore, that if the danger of such attack were removed, the need for this defense could be correspondingly lessened . . . Let us attack the cause of the Soviet concerns-not their symptoms." The U.S. proposal: the prompt establishment of a northern zone of inspection against surprise attack...
...northern polling station of Koumea last week, the first voter of the day strode in stark naked except for a straw hat. In the south, nationalists regaled reporters with accusations of repeat voting by government supporters: the ink stamped on each voter's hand to prevent his voting twice apparently washed off easily. But when day was done, the unexpected news began to spread: Olympio's party had won 60% of the votes, and 31 out of 46 Assembly seats...
Laying Eggs. Everyone knew where the marauding planes were based: at the rebel stronghold of Menado in the Northern Celebes. But no one save the rebels themselves knew for certain where the small air fleet of four B-26s and two Mustang fighters had been purchased, or who were their pilots. Said a survivor of the tanker San Flaviano: "The plane came in mast-high and laid its eggs right on us. You can't tell me an American wasn't at the controls...