Word: secessionism
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The Civil Rights Committee flatly recommended outlawing the anti-Negro practices of the South. Such fiery Southerners as Fielding Lewis Wright, governor of Mississippi, forthwith raised the cry of secession-from the Democratic Party, not the nation. When President Truman urged Congress to enact his committee's recommendations into...
Jan Christian Smuts, the wise, venerable, oak-solid Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, was out of office. South Africa, which had been considered safe in the fold of the British Commonwealth (and which last year lent ?80 million in gold as a prop for Britain's...
Despite the return of Big Jim Farley after two campaigns on the sidelines, Democrats would meet in a somber mood. The hyphen symbolized their dilemma. Few would dispute Harry Truman's descent from Andrew Jackson, the party regular. But angry Southern Democrats, smarting under the President's civil...
The secession caught the I.L.W.U.'s leftist leaders in Hawaii by surprise. Jack Hall, Bridges' lieutenant in Hawaii, was in San Francisco, presumably talking strike strategy with his boss. Union organizers scampered to Hilo, tried to persuade the 4,000 secessionists to reconsider their stand. But at week...
All day and all night one speaker after another demanded secession from the C.G.T. Their members, they said, wanted a breakaway from Communist leadership and they wanted it now.