Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some operators it seemed like a good idea, but the big Northern bloc did not agree. Efficient operators would be unfairly penalized, they argued. Beyond that, their connivance might put them in violation of the antitrust laws...
...Louis is a Northern town with Southern accents, where Jim Crow walks a tightrope. Negroes are not segregated on streetcars and buses, in the ballparks, or at the Municipal Opera. But in restaurants, the public schools and movie houses, they are. Last week the delicate balance, a matter of timing and tradition, was snapped. A reporter casually asked the city's new welfare director, John J. O' Toole, whether Negroes could be allowed to swim in all the city's public pools. There was no law saying they couldn't, so O' Toole answered...
...Imagine? The University of California faculty wanted no dictating. The Academic Senate of the university's northern section (composed of 700 professors and instructors) refused to accept the Regents' new loyalty oath unless the senate's own representatives were allowed to help revise it. Meanwhile, the University of Connecticut flatly refused to send in any book lists to the Un-American Activities Committee. Heads of other colleges protested. Said President Francis P. Gaines of Washington and Lee University, "Can you imagine a group of erudite Congressmen telling us what books our professors may use [in] literature...
...back in 1845. In that year, after a missionary society decision to employ no missionaries who owned slaves, the Baptists from the South walked out and formed their own denomination-the Southern Baptist Convention. In 1907 the Baptists north of the Mason-Dixon line united and called themselves the Northern Baptist Convention. Since then, all attempts at uniting the two have failed. At the Southern Baptist Convention's meeting in Oklahoma City last month, some delegates expressed alarm at reports of a forthcoming merger between the Northern Baptists (1,500,000 members) and the 1,700,000-member Disciples...
Three Enemies. Gathered together beneath a banner bearing the silver-spangled motto, YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE,* 5,000-odd Northern Baptists wandered in the corridors outside the hall among a variety of exhibits (on everything from the merits of missions to the evils of alcohol), chatted warmly in the wicker-furnished "Friendship Patio," looked in on the nursery where convening parents parked their offspring...