Word: southern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voters in Virginia and Texas put another dent in the rusty Southern argument that civil rights could best be guaranteed by letting the states do their own housecleaning. Virginia's proposal to repeal the poll tax was defeated by a majority of nearly four to one. But many organizations which wanted to abolish the tax-including church, labor, Negro and veterans' groups-fought the Byrd machine's proposal as complicated and dishonest. They feared that the blank-check authority it granted the Byrd-controlled legislature to set up new voting requirements might prove more harmful to their...
With a loan from Marshall Field, Williams bought the decrepit old (105 years) monthly Southern Farmer in Montgomery, Ala. for an estimated $100,000. The tabloid-size Farmer, which looks more like a newspaper than a magazine, had long been against the New Deal and for white supremacy, delighted the "red necks" with its waving of the bloody shirt...
...London, Connecticut is the best bet to get the mill in the end. Ample acreage, good port facilities and railroads, an excellent fresh water supply in the Thames River, plus a proximity to the firearms and precision instrument factories in southern New England, all make New London the most logical site. New London would like the will, furthermore, because the city has felt serious unemployment with the closing down of so many Coast Guard activities; like all the other cities, New London would be glad to see the 20,000 to 30,000 jobs that the mill would make whether...
Down in the southern part of Connecticut there's a historic little village called New Haven. Further south there's a town called New York. Tourists from the north will be heading for both of these spots toady and tomorrow...
...Montgomery she went to supper with Governor Moore ("The old sinner has been making himself ridiculous with that little actress Maggie Mitchell"). She saw a Negro woman sold into slavery: "My very soul sickened." She said to a Northern-born woman: "If you can stand that, no other Southern thing need choke...