Word: secessionism
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Since General Doihara and his Japanese Army crowd had openly threatened to hurl in their troops at any such "Chinese provocation" and since they did not hurl them last week, Chinese enjoyed briefly a feeling of exhilaration. Then Ambassador Ariyoshi bustled around, hinting to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that the...
A brilliant bundle of contradictions, Aaron Burr had not been able to get along with General Washington at his New York headquarters. Yet as commander of the Revolutionary forces in Orange County he had distinguished himself for soldierly competence. After the Revolution he had practiced law in New York, become...
Sam Houston marched into Washington with a big sombrero on his head, an Indian blanket over his shoulders and a tiger-skin vest around his middle, sat in the Senate for 13 years whittling at a stack of wood. But he was a gallant, handsome man, with the Indian'...
Rearing a few surprising skyscrapers above the rich alluvium of the Connecticut River is Hartford, capital of the third smallest State in the Union, home of a considerable proportion of the U. S. insurance business, birthplace of J. P. Morgan the Elder. There, where Secession was debated long before the...
R. E. LEE (Vols. I & II)-Douglas Southall Freeman-Scribner ($7.50). Strange, even shocking as it may seem, no definitive life of the late great Robert Edward Lee has yet been written. When, 19 years ago, Publisher Scribner asked Author Freeman to write a biography of Lee, he expected it...