Word: secessionism
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A conservative Senator at once announced himself "ferociously hostile" to a provision for a "coordinating" federal assembly on the ground that this would surely become a nucleus for secession.
Vigorous Shush. From Glasgow, Balmoral and elsewhere, the merger plan has brought threats of secession from the church by outraged dominies. Anglicans had little to say, possibly because the addition of elders to an already existing hierarchy is not so shocking to them as the creation of a new hierarchy...
DeGuglielmo argued that in case of Harvard's "secession" the city would annually lose $151,000 paid in taxes by the University, $2 1/2 million spent by students around the Square, and $8 million in wages to Cambridge residents on the University payroll.
Despite the threats of revolt, A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders see little danger of mass secession by segregationist locals, mainly because organized workers would be reluctant to forfeit the contracts and bargaining power they have won through international unions. In union affairs and on the job, most organized workers in the South...
Under the leadership of Virginia, which presented an idea, not a plan, they have ridden off like headless horsemen into the woods of nullification-even though they call it interposition-and in the pursuit of every evasion of the decree that slick, if not smart, lawyers may devise. Nobody has...