Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week, with the bill on the floor at last, the House did its best to oblige. An ill-assorted alliance of the far left and far right leaped in with knives flourishing. New York's Communist-line Vito Marcantonio and left-wing Leo Isacson joined forces with Mississippi's ranting John E. Rankin and Michigan's Paul Shafer...
...horseback across the country. By the order of the Honorable Secretary of War . . . Major Long had been instructed to explore the country from the Missouri westward to the Rocky Mountains to the source of the River Platte and thence by way of the Arkansas and Red Rivers to the Mississippi. Dr. James became botanist, geologist and surgeon . . . They were particularly desirous of visiting what Pike called the highest peak of the mountains, which now bears the name of that distinguished explorer and soldier. Its summit had been reported inaccessible. A detachment of the party, however, conducted by Dr. James, went...
...Washington, Cissie Patterson's Times-Herald, little cousin of the Trib, picked up the story. When Mississippi's John Rankin read it, he brayed to the House that "if it is true, it certainly is an outrage and . . . Congress should investigate it, and should...
...Mississippi-born Composer Still's music has a homespun quality, but it is as varied as his own background of Scottish, Irish, American Indian and Negro ancestors. He tries to avoid repeating himself ("after all, an architect wouldn't want to design the same kind of house all the time"). Making movie music (at $250 a day) ceased to interest him because he felt that he had to do "my work in my own good time, and in my own good...
...successor to President Louie De Votie Newton, a fundamentalist in his religion but a wide-eyed Russophile in his politics. The convention picked a home-town boy for the job: Dr. Robert Greene Lee, 61, of Memphis' Bellevue Baptist Church, the largest white Baptist congregation east of the Mississippi. He is famed for his preaching-especially for his spellbinding sermon, "Pay Day Some Day," on King Ahab and his wicked wife Jezebel. Last week in Memphis, 8,000 Southern Baptists heard their new president preach it again-for the 316th time...