Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mississippi's Democratic Senator Bilbo: "The next step should be to put a muffler on Claude Pepper...
...Mississippi's Democratic Representative Rankin: "'Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow...
Answering the roll call of last week's extraordinary caucus were such practiced pork-barrelers as Tennessee's cob-nosed Kenneth McKellar, Mississippi's Bilbo and Rankin, Louisiana's paunchy John Overton. Bilbo, still convalescing from inflammation of the mouth (see PEOPLE), apologized for his inability to orate. Overton, running two degrees of fever, left early. But others jumped up to accuse Harry Truman of defying the will of Congress...
...college football market was wide open again. West Point and Annapolis no longer had their wartime corner on talent. Back to Mississippi State went Army's Shorty McWilliams, back to Notre Dame went Navy's Bob Kelly, back to Penn went Navy's Tony Minisi (TIME, Sept. 9). Last week the authorities of the service academies, who had viewed the trend with dignified alarm, got support from a high quarter, Harry Truman's military aide...
Last week Minisi told why he quit Annapolis: "I wasn't going to follow a Navy career. I don't think it would have been right to get my college education at the Government's expense." Mississippi State Coach Allyn McKeen had an equally ingratiating explanation of McWilliams' decision to leave West Point: "He found it unpleasant there. He didn't like the discipline...