Word: seward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William H. Seward minted a round, shiny phrase. He described the difference between Northern wage labor and Southern slave labor as an "irrepressible conflict." Later, Seward's friends explained that he had not meant that war was inevitable, much" less that it was desirable. Abraham Lincoln profoundly believed that war was undesirable, and hoped that it was avoidable, when he came into the Presidency and put Seward in his Cabinet. But Seward's phrase had caught on. Hotheads on both sides used it. By the time the shooting started, civil war was indeed "irrepressible...
PAUL REUTER Seward...
Last New Year's Eve the first contingent from the States-a dozen couples, four determined bachelors-arrived in Seward. They had been trained in code, meteorology, radio theory, air navigation. At Seward they boarded a train for Anchorage. They gazed with wonder at glaciers and snow-capped hills. They had fishing rods, guns, accordions, cameras; some of them had children...
...State Department, Harold Ickes and other U.S. policy makers are therefore taking the longest possible view of the future. Like Thomas Jefferson, buying the West in the Louisiana Purchase, and Secretary William H. Seward, buying the-North in Alaska, the U.S. was now looking much further beyond the foreseeable future, in an effort to guarantee U.S. security...
...Episcopal Church's Bishops can doff their "magpies,"* draw their pensions at 68), Dr. Ward volunteered for a year's missionary service. No other retiring Episcopal Bishop has ever done such a thing. Dr. Ward's mission: St. Peter's Church, Seward, Alaska...