Word: kosciusko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Popular. How many comrades in the rowdy new "peoples' democracies" of Eastern Europe felt the same? In Warsaw the jittery Yugoslav Embassy had received a flood of congratulatory telegrams-unsigned. Good students of history, the men of the Kremlin must have heard other echoes: the names of Kossuth, Kosciusko and other heroes of national independence. Here was the sharp point of their dilemma. For the great incandescent fact of the "Affair Tito" was simply this: like Tito, many a non-Russian Red still wanted to think of himself as a Yugoslav, Pole, Czech or Hungarian and not just...
Collector's Item. In Little Rock, Forrest City and Marianna, Ark. and in Kosciusko, Miss., police searched for the pipe-organ "repairmen" who had stolen pipes from organs in each of the four towns...
...telephone strike. Even that strike seemed to be crumbling around the edges. A.T. & T. claimed it was handling four-fifths of the normal number of local calls, that long-distance service was up to 35%. Telephone workers were beginning to straggle back in many places: twelve in Kosciusko, Miss.; 1,500 Commercial Telephone Workers Union members in New Jersey, pending arbitration and a constitutional test of the state's drastic new anti-strike law (TIME, April 21); so many in the South that Southern Bell had removed emergency restrictions from long-distance calls...
This was too much for white-haired Senator Dave Crawley of Kosciusko (pop. 4,291). "I don't dispute the story," said he, "but I do observe a picture show is a hell of a place to lose it." After the fireworks, the bill passed: 29-to-10, went to the House, which has twice killed a similar bill. The measure was strictly class legislation. Even if the House should pass the bill, cockfights, bullfights, and bearbaiting will still be illegal in Mississippi on Sundays...