Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Road? John Rankin drove on. It was the same everywhere. Many a knowing Mississippi politician predicted that Rankin would be so badly beaten in the Senate race that he might not even run again for the House seat which he has held for 21 years...
When Theodore Bilbo died of cancer last summer (TIME, Sept. i), it did not mean that Mississippi was out of demagogues. Poodle-haired Congressman John E. Rankin automatically succeeded him. Rankin thought he might succeed almost as easily to Bilbo's seat in the U.S. Senate. Apparently he thought wrong...
Commented an Episcopal minister at Jackson: "I believe that the tide of progress is finally sweeping even into Mississippi...
...eastern Brazil to islands on the present site of the Andes. It was not a tropical sea, but temperate, since the animals that lived in it are characteristic of cool water. It must have extended without a break right past the equator and into the region of the present Mississippi Valley. In those .days the same shellfish lived in Peru and in Oklahoma...
...Mississippi. 5. Ohio...