Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Pressure groups on both sides were working hard, stirring up constituents to wire or telephone their Congressmen. When the voting came, the Republican leadership stuck solidly by their Dixiecrat allies. But 64 rank & file Republicans deserted their leaders to join a solid front of Northern Democrats in smashing the great Cox rebellion by a decisive vote...
...struggled for discipline. Demoralized troops were moved out of the towns into the countryside, paid in silver dollars (for a change), reorganized and re-equipped. Hsueh now has 160,000 men of varying fitness. His best units are digging in along the white sand beaches of Hainan's northern coast...
...Garrison's arrest and conviction "under the laws of the State." Mississippi slave owners made up a purse for his capture. Georgetown, D.C. passed a law forbidding Negroes to read his paper. Garrison was hated in Boston too: he kept harping on the guilt of northern ship owners for transporting the Negroes in the first place. Finally, the free Negroes of Boston organized to protect him; each night a bodyguard, armed with cudgels, trailed him home. Even so, in 1835 he came close to being lynched when a mob dragged him through the Boston streets...
...Dartmouth victory is Harvard's first in the Northern-Group of the New England College Rifle League, as against two losses to MIT and Norwich. Other teams in the league are Bowdoin, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont...
...Chinese would now find themselves deceived. Russia, using Communism-"the most subtle instrument of Soviet foreign policy . . . ever devised"-is the new imperialist in Asia. Already Soviet Russia was proving the point in China by absorbing the northern "provinces" of Outer Mongolia, Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and Sinkiang. "I should like to suggest," said Acheson, "that this fact ... is the single most significant, most important fact in the relation of any foreign power with Asia...