Word: hattiesburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gourmet. In Hattiesburg, Miss., Clayton E. Stewart missed "those good home-cooked meals," applied for and won readmission to the county jail...
Died. Paul Burney Johnson, 63, Governor of Mississippi; of a heart ailment; in Hattiesburg, Miss. A farmer's son, handsome, 6 ft. 3 in. Johnson rose from teacher, Circuit Court judge and Congressman to Governor in 1939-with the support of Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. He was famed in Mississippi's bizarre politics as the choice of the "runt-pig" people, he tried to stem lynchings, left the state a surplus approaching...
Racket. In Hattiesburg, Miss., a physician examining Private John Lafferty for entrance to the officers' training school applied his stethoscope, listened, rejected him, had him sent to a hospital. The odd noises the physician had heard were the crunching of hair on Private Lafferty's nappy chest...
Thanks to National Defense, one local U. S. newspaper was last week gaining a nationwide reputation. It is the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, now known to 40,000 new soldiers from a dozen States stationed nearby at Camp Shelby. Owner and entire editorial works of the American is Charles Green Andrews Harmon, explantation overseer, who six years ago decided to liven it up. With 4,000 new readers at Camp Shelby, Editor Harmon works hard to amuse and enlighten them...