Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anderson and Aiken produced an amendment striking most of Part III from the bill; Johnson saw that the amendment got onto the Senate floor for action. Moreover, he rounded up so many votes to carry it that at the last moment he was able to allow some Northern Democrats to vote against the bill to strengthen their civil rights reputations back home. The amendment carried 52 to 38, and Part III was all but gone...
...something influencing this drastic bill other than the construction of school buildings.'' New York Republican Stuyvesant Wainwright (who eventually voted against the bill) insisted on adding the kiss of death, i.e., a rider (the Powell amendment of last session) withholding federal funds from segregated schools, thereby gave Northern Congressmen an opportunity to make a liberal record by backing him. When all others had finished their say, Virginia's wily Howard Smith moved to strike the bill's enacting clause. Democrat Smith's motion carried by a vote of 208 (111 Republicans, 97 Democrats...
...namesake uncle, a Democrat, was a U.S. Senator (1907-12) as well as governor (1887-91; 1897-99)-in fact, the Taylor brothers ran against each other in 1886 for governor. No politician, Little Bob Taylor is well content to be a federal judge in the Northern Division of the Eastern District of Tennessee (Knoxville). If he is segregationist at heart (which some friends think he is), he keeps his sentiments to himself, deals fairly with Negroes and whites in his court, for, as anybody in Tennessee knows, Little Bob values above all things a respect for law and order...
...elected a new dynasty of Imams and in 1920, after decades of hard fighting had won from the then Sultan a grudging acknowledgment of the Imam's rule in the mountains. So when two years ago the Sultan's foreign oil drillers went to work near the northern border, the Imam's tribesmen attacked them. The Sultan struck back, sending a few hundred British-officered levies to quell the rebels. He advanced in a flying column of Land-rovers, and it was a walkover. The Imam retired to a remote village, his brother led to Saudi Arabia...
...Newstadt, son of a German-descended schoolteacher who liked to boast that he had taught William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's famed and durable (1921-48, except for five years) Liberal Prime Minster. When John was eight, father Diefenbaker took his family to a Saskatchewan crossroads where the northern prairies turn into a subarctic wasteland of muskeg, timber and lakes. There one day father Diefenbaker tied a red bandanna to the rim of a wagon wheel and, counting the turns of the wheel, measured off a 160-acre homestead. That spring he broke the virgin sod to the plow...