Word: colemans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Governor Coleman last February announced that he intended to call a constitutional convention, he met remarkably little resistance from his enemies. But last week, while he was up North foraging for more industry, reaction finally went into action. Nineteen old-guard legislators caucused in Jackson, formed an anti-constitution committee. Named to head it were two longtime Coleman adversaries: Senate President Pro Tern Earl Evans Jr. as chairman and Representative Thompson McClellan as vice chairman. Behind their move was the fact that oxcart legislators from the Delta and Coleman's own hill counties are afraid that...
Beneath those blunt words-part of a quarter-page advertisement spread through the newspapers in Mississippi's capital city of Jackson one day last week-was the signature of Mississippi's Governor James Plemmon Coleman. With something of a jolt, Mississippians realized that capable, 43-year-old J. P. Coleman, who had worked surprising modernizing reforms during his first year in office without open legislative battles with the state's mossbacks (TIME, March 3), was set to fight right down to the line for a project that he considers fundamental: rewriting the 1890 state constitution, primarily...
...last minute attempt to take the Committee's finances out of the red, the Jubilee group has decided to allow upper-classmen to attend its Friday night dance-concert. Among the performers at the Union event will be Buck Clayton, Coleman Hawkins, and Milt Hinton...
Several of America's top jazzmen will form a jazz combo Friday night to play for an informal dance in the Union. Milt Hinton, Buck Clayton, Urbie Green, Jo Jones, Coleman Hawkins, and Osie Johnson will take part...
GOVERNOR J. P. COLEMAN...