Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced as George L. Vaughn, a delegate from St. Louis and a member of the credentials committee; he wanted to submit a minority report. The majority had agreed to seat the Mississippi delegation. But the Mississippi delegation, Vaughn charged, intended to walk out if Harry Truman's civil rights program was incorporated into the platform and if Harry Truman was nominated. He recommended, therefore, that the Mississippi delegation "not be seated." He clenched his fist, yelling: "Three million Negroes have left the South since the outbreak of World War II to escape this thing. I ask the convention...
...students feel about Hastings' old men? When the new term opens next month, Hastings' enrollment will be 700 students (most of them married G.I.s earning their own way), making Hastings not only the oldest law school west of the Mississippi, but also the largest...
...from Mississippi. Along with Garst's promotion, the Times also shuffled five other news executives around-but brought in no new faces. Most important change: amiable, Mississippi-born Assistant Managing Editor Turner Catledge, who has spent 18 of his 47 years on the Times, moved up to acting managing editor. He will replace Edwin L. James, who sailed last week for a long vacation in Europe...
...nation's annual plague of grasshoppers was beginning early last week in Mississippi, where the hoppers were crunching through corn and cotton fields, eating everything in sight except the evilest-tasting weeds. Farmers were fighting them in an approved modern manner: with bait of wheat bran flavored with white arsenic...
...President did get some encouragement. Old Bill Green predicted: "The Republicans certainly won't get much labor support." From Chicago came word that Jake Arvey, who had been thumping for Ike Eisenhower, admitted that Harry Truman "has picked up a lot." The President also got some advice. Mississippi's John Rankin came out of the President's office and suggested that the secessionist Dixiecrats might stay hitched if the Democratic platform went no further on civil rights than the generalizations of the 1944 plank -which proclaimed that "racial and religious minorities have the right to live, develop...