Word: deltas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Fielding Lewis Wright, 60, fiery Mississippi Delta lawyer, 1948 candidate for Vice President of the U.S. on the Dixiecrat ticket, 1½time white supremacist governor of Mississippi (1946-52); of a heart attack; in Jackson. Miss...
...Britain's Fairey Delta 2 jet broke the official world's record previously held by a U.S. Air Force F-100C. The speed: 1,132 m.p.h...
...Hamilton, an ex-Communist, printed a photograph of Falstaff's Vice President Karl Vollmer handing the check to an N.A.A.C.P. official. Squawked the White Sentinel: "When you drink Falstaff beer, you are aiding the integration and mongrelization of America." White Sentinel copies were circulated in Mississippi's Delta region, where Falstaff sales were cut. Vice President Vollmer flew to Jackson to say publicly: "No officer of Falstaff has ever commented favorably or otherwise on the principles of the N.A.A.C.P." After that, officials of the Jackson Citizens' Council declared the company innocent of the charges against...
...program is focused upon the Mississippi delta and Montgomery, Alabama. The especially depressed condition of the former area will mean that most of the food and clothing collected in the drive will be shipped there, Bronson said. He added that material aid to Montgomery will be small and will serve primarily to show moral support...
...Working the 4,500 acres directly under the plantation manager-520 acres are worked by tenant farmers-are 84 sharecroppers (mostly Negro) and, in this season, about 30 Negro day hands. The material welfare of these men and their families-about 400 people-is directly dependent on Eastland. By Delta standards, he does well by them. Showpiece of the Eastland plantation is Preston Jones, Negro manager of a 360-acre "unit," who last year netted $7,800 after living expenses. Jones is admittedly exceptional, but General Manager Godbold estimates that the 84 sharecroppers probably averaged $800 as their share...