Word: secessionism
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Says Stieglitz: "It was in those Photo-Secession rooms that the ice was broken for modern art in America." This is no idle boast. Between 1908-16, 291 introduced for the first time to the U.S. the works of Rodin (drawings), Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne, Rousseau, Georgia O'Keeffe...
The new chairman's job would be grinding. Fortnight ago new threats against New Deal leadership again cropped up. Alabama's Governor Frank M. Dixon, champion of "white supremacy," called for a secession of Southern Democrats. In Omaha, Democratic leaders of nine Midwestern States organized a "united farm...
Tap Roots is exciting as history and as a story. The little-known history it highlights is the rise and bloody fall of the Free State of Jones (novelized as Lebanon), a county in southeastern Mississippi which seceded from Mississippi soon after Mississippi seceded from the Union. Like many Southerners...
Without Leadership. What Vanier realized was that French-Canadians, embittered over the conscription issue and distrustful of their national leaders, were being drawn into secret orders and nationalistic groups working for secession, inviting civil war. Dawdling Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King knew about them,* but did not act. The...
C. R. had favored Sir Stafford Cripps' recently rejected proposal for post-war Indian self-government and he wanted an internally amicable India to fight Japan tooth & nail. He had suggested fortnight ago that the Congress, as Britain proposed, recognize the right of India's great Moslem minority...