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Andrew Johnson, argues Stampp, was a class-conscious Jacksonian. He nourished the self-made man's hate of the aristocratic planter class. This gave him a superficial bond of allegiance to the Radicals. But Johnson wished to thrust the poor Southern whites upward, and cared not a whit for the Negroes. When Johnson's aim became clear, many Republicans thought they had been betrayed and turned against him. Johnson's difficulties with the Congress multiplied when, through his ineptness, the planter class, not the yoemanry, gained ascendence in the Southern states. The aristocrats proceeded to enact the Black Codes, stripping...
...last week's announcement five new quasars were listed, their speeds varying upward from 93,000 miles per second. What this means in actual distance Dr. Schmidt is not quite sure. He is certain, however, that they are the most distant objects so far identified, even though man's knowledge of the outer fringes of the universe is too uncertain for making hard and fast measurements. Out among the quasars, space itself may have unfamiliar properties...
...schedules of compensation for private shareholders of the present firms are nearly 25% above the current market value of the stocks, and will cost the treasury an estimated additional $330 million over the total market price of $1.2 billion. Wilson's unexpected largesse predictably sent steel shares jumping upward...
...figure represents an eight per cent increase over last June's $916.5 million total. According to the rise is due to a general upward trend in the stock market. He emphasized that no special gift had contributed to the new high, noting that the $1 billion level had been expected for some time...
Pistol-Packin' Mama. In the death scene, Stratas shed real tears and made her audience suffer with her as the strings surged upward to a great chord, punctured by Violetta's desperate cry: "Ah! gran' Dio! Morir si giovine [Ah, great God! To die so young]." After the performance, Teresa, smothered in flowers, wearing a green Florentine velvet gown, was seized by a hollow cough. "You see, Violetta is contagious," she said...