Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your note in TIME, Feb. 23, on the 3? stamp commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Mississippi Territory mentioned that Mississippi was misspelled on the territory's original seal...
...consideration. In the House, a Judiciary subcommittee voted out an anti-lynching bill. Heaping the coals higher, a delegation of Negro leaders waited on Speaker of the House Joe Martin, presented him with a petition bearing more than a million signatures which demanded the immediate ejection from Congress of Mississippi's rabid John Rankin...
...Louis, the "Gateway to the West," wanted a gate to mark the spot. The citizens offered $125,000 in prizes for the best ideas. Last week the winning design was announced: a stainless steel, streamlined, 590-ft.-high arch to rise beside the Mississippi on a site which was formerly occupied mostly by old warehouses. The arch, with a "funicular elevator and observation corridor," had first reared in the mind of a talented Michigan architect named Eero Saarinen, who, with his father Eliel, is a frequent winner of architectural competitions. His prize this time: $40,000 and a warm recommendation...
...tornado whipped through the center of Mississippi. In the single town of Newton (pop. 1,800), nine people were killed and 25 injured...
...Sava, the Bug, the Moskva, the Dnieper, the Don, the Volga, the Yenisei and the Amur, a man who wishes to express approval-of a painting, a factory production record or a military operation-is likely to call it "Marxist." In the lands drained by the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the Orinoco, the Amazon, the Tagus, the Thames and the Clyde, a man who wishes to express disapproval-of a painting, a production record or a military operation-is likely to call it "Marxist." In the lands drained by the Yangtze, the Yellow River, the Mekong, the Tiber...