Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, Henry was not without sympathizers. North Carolina's Governor Gregg Cherry condemned the mob's conduct. President Truman denounced it as "highly un-American." Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright, the Dixiecrats' vice presidential candidate, urged all Mississippians to behave. In Greensboro, N.C., Judge E. Earle Rives sentenced two teenage egg-throwers to write over & over: "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it." The nation's press, including the South's, lectured on the right of free speech...
...Department of Commerce announced that the average income per person in the U.S. last year was $1,323-up $110 from 1946. Highest average among the 20 states which exceeded the national figure was Nevada's $1,842. New York was second with $1,781. Mississippi had the nation's lowest average...
...enormous mass of tropical air drifted up the Mississippi Valley-like a soldering iron being run slowly up a dowager's spine. While chickens fell dead and pavements shimmered like cookstoves, the hot air spread east and west. Soon it was hot from the Rockies to the Atlantic coast. And it stayed hot-hot as Zamboanga in mango-picking time...
...severe daylight thunderstorm over western Wisconsin caught a two-engine Northwest Airlines transport plane, shot lightning around it, crippled it, brought it down against a bluff of the Mississippi River near Winona, Minn. The dead: 37 (there were no survivors). Total fatalities in airline and chartered passenger planes in 1948 to date...
...week, the South's side was heard from. Many Southern papers which did not print Sprigle found space to print a Northern Negro publisher's account of his own untroubled tour. And many more were likely to print a rebuttal to Sprigle by Hodding Carter, the able Mississippi editor who won a Pulitzer prize for his editorials on racial tolerance...