Word: secessionism
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While Governor Ritchie lay ill and disappointed in his fine old brick mansion in Annapolis, Eastern Shoremen proclaimed that they would like to ''trade Governors" with California. They loudly crowed that Governor Ritchie, who has aspirations of succeeding himself for the fourth time or running for the U...
A pack of Southern generals, all with bitter personal grudges against Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, broke with his Nanking Government last week and declared the secession of the coastal province of Fukien, styling themselves gloriously "The Chinese National Great Allied Revolutionary Government."
The State of Western Australia is a vast semidesert as big as Western Europe. Separating it from the rest of Australia are 800 miles of uninhabited country. Among the jack rabbits, kangaroos and kookaburra birds that laugh hysterically and swallow snakes, live half a million farmers who till the fertile...
Last week the embattled farmers paradoxically voted Premier Mitchell out of office in the Government elections, plumped strongly for secession. The Labor Party, which is against secession, but is also against Premier Mitchell's policy of wage reduction, won a majority of ten seats. Observers doubted whether anything more...
1832-South Carolina passed its ordinance to nullify the tariff, threatened secession.