Word: secessionism
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Zions Herald has always championed the Negro. As an Abolitionist publication it was largely responsible for the secession of Southern Methodism in 1844 (Southern Bishop James O. Andrew's wife owned slaves). It has consistently protested against Jim Crowism in Methodist Church policies.
At the head of the Great Lakes in Ontario's twin cities, Port Arthur and Fort William (pop. 55,000), the cry of secession was heard last week. The man who raised it was Fort William's ex-Mayor Chisholm Ross, who objects to being governed from Ontario...
Apartment-hunting patrols infiltrated grays, along with colds conveniently attributed to changeable weather. And the week brought many startling revelations. Among them, the Supreme Court decision which caught the Texas delegation flat-footed and revived old secession rumors. Increasingly frequent opportunities to develop proficiency in drilling and marching were taken...
The last Yale-Harvard game to be played in decent weather was an accident. The weather man overslept and forgot to turn on the wind-snow-rain-cold-fog machine. He'd been out the night before celebrating South Carolina's secession from the Union.
In the hard-coal basin there was bold talk of anthracite-union secession from the bituminous-worker-controlled United Mine Workers.