Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power base secure, T.R. kicked off a momentous new-century campaign to save his countrymen from "government by plutocracy or by mob." His first milestone breakthroughs: 1) first successful antitrust suit brought by an American President to dissolve a corporate monopoly-the Northern Securities Co.-to safeguard right of free competition; 2) first mediation between management and labor by an American President-in the great anthracite coal strike-to safeguard the public welfare, including the rights of labor. But T.R., conservative, added: "I wish the labor people absolutely to understand that I set my face like flint against violence...
...eliminate the slums, lure back the whites and break the white noose, Dilworth will be the first mayor to solve an urban problem vexing most major northern cities. Philadelphia Negroes are fully behind him. All he needs now is a good, heavy concentration of similarly dedicated whites. Says Dick Dilworth: "It's damned serious...
...Most Northern cities do not keep records of Negro v. white convictions, but as in New York City, where 35% of the crime rate is charged to Negroes, the rate in Philadelphia is disproportionately high...
...advance that bid, Iraq may still consider withdrawal from the Baghdad Pact. As the northern tier of states united to resist Soviet pressure, the pact has always been viable; it would lose little military cohesion if Iraq withdrew. In its second purpose-organizing the Arab Middle East-the pact has been a failure: far from lining up the Arabs, it has isolated Iraq, the sole Arab member, under a cloud of nationalist distrust...
...five years as Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, Garfield Todd became a symbol and something of a saint to the 2,220,000 Africans who comprise 92% of the population. More than any other white leader in the Central African Federation (the united British territories of Southern and Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland), Todd fought to advance the rights of black men. He tried to give the vote to more Africans, to increase Africans' wages. But in his zeal for racial "partnership," Garfield Todd, longtime Churches of Christ (Disciples) missionary, gradually antagonized more and more of Southern Rhodesia...