Word: secessionism
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Met Volkje. Explaining the government's case, Minister of Labor Jan de Klerk, Strydom's brother-in-law, said: "God is sovereign and his sovereignty is vested in het volkje [the folk], who vest it in their chosen rulers. We therefore have the right to determine what must...
The Big Ten's secession from the N.C.A.A., which has been brewing for several years, reached the point of probability last week when the midwestern league and the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference took directly opposing stands on the television controversy.
Despite the threatened secession how ever, Felt said that the Ivy college who have also opposed the national TV program--but for reasons other than the Big Ten--will probably not leave the N.C.A.A. at this time.
There have been Maybanks in South Carolina since 1670. Both Burnet and Rhett are maternal family names famous in ante-bellum days. One ancestor, William Rhett, served as Vice Admiral of the colony, cleared the Carolina coast of pirates and hanged Gentleman Freebooter Stede Bonnet at Charleston in 1719. Another...
STEELWORKERS UNION is just waiting for an excuse to pull its 1,100,000 members out of the C.I.O. and suspend its $1,200,000 annual-dues payment (35% of C.I.O. income). Long resentful of C.I.O. (and United Auto Workers) President Walter Reuther, the Steelworkers have asked Pittsburgh newspapers to...