Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After three more hours of speechmaking, the talk-tired Senate, backing up Bill Knowland, voted to bypass the Eastland roadblock under Rule 14. The tally: 45 to 39, with eleven Northern Democrats (not including Oregon's civil righteous Wayne Morse) supporting Knowland, and five mossy Republicans (Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nevada's George Malone, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young, Delaware's John Williams) breaking ranks to join the Southerners. Still ahead after the Fourth of July recess: an all-out Southern attempt to drown it in a flood...
...Office of Defense Mobilization decision to grant Idaho Power a multimillion-dollar fast write-off tax break on the Snake River project (TIME, May 13) started the issue sizzling again. Encouraged, Northern Democrats in the Senate revived their Hells Canyon bill, although the federal dam it called for would flood Idaho Power's three dam sites...
Southern Democrats, desperate for support against a Republican move to put the House's civil rights bill on the Senate calendar, offered Northern Democrats a swap: vote with us to send the civil rights bill to the Southern-dominated Judiciary Committee, and we'll vote with you on Hells Canyon...
...current outbreak apparently started in northern China in January; in February it swept through Shanghai; by March it was in Canton. Early in April, influenza jumped to Hong Kong, almost certainly carried by refugees from Red China. The disease was marked by three or four days of severe headache, fever (up to 104°), aching muscles, general malaise. Against complications-bronchitis, pneumonia, etc. -sulfas and antibiotics worked well. (Hong Kong's unemployed made a good thing of standing in the clinic lines for drugs, then when they neared the head of the line selling their places to the severely...
Organizing a weekend "gypsy tour" to the tiny California mining town of Angels Camp (pop. 1,163), the Northern California chapter of the American Motorcycle Association won eager support from the Angels Camp Lions Club and police. The Lions agreed to sponsor A.M.A. races, borrowed $1,000 from the bank to pay advance costs. The police department increased its force from two officers to eight after warnings that motorcycle hoodlums sometimes dog the A.M.A. riders, sometimes get violent. (Ten years ago they almost wrecked nearby Hollister, Calif, during a three-day beer and battle orgy.) One day last week...