Word: secessionism
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Those who favored adoption of the national plank, qualified by the "condemn Russia" amendment, recognized that there was at least a conflict of spirit, if not of letter, between the two. But neither of the alternative courses of action--abandonment of the anti-Soviet stand, or secession from the national...
When Sandburg gave his first two volumes a rigorous rewriting in manuscript in 1935, he scaled down four opening chapters on the background of secession into one, making a packed picture of which he suspects "there are some pages over which people will stop and wonder." It was a time...
"Amid falling snow at midnight, out of a carriage bundled a mass of shawls and woolen scarfs one winter evening to ring the doorbell at the home of a Virginia Congressman. Inside the house a manservant began unwinding the bundle. Out of it came the Secretary of State, General Lewis...
Secession by Consent. In the single lifetime of His Majesty, who was born in 1858, the Swedish people have increased from fewer than 4,000,000 to over 6,200,000-almost as many people as live in London or New York City. The Swedes have devoted their whole toil...
Prince Gustaf served as a young man in the Swedish Army, began to step out, travel and see the world when as Crown Prince in 1878 he paid his first visit to England. There, so far as Sweden was concerned, he "discovered tennis," proceeded to popularize the game in Scandinavia...