Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trail of lynch law led from the mob murder of four Negroes on a lonely Georgia roadside (TIME, Aug. 5) to a Mississippi bayou deep in the land of Bilbo. There it was marked by the battered corpse of a Negro tenant farmer floating in the scum...
Last week, after nearby Greenwood's enterprising Morning Star had broken the story of Mississippi's latest lynching, prosecutors in Holmes County (80% Negro) moved with commendable speed. Before a jampacked courtroom, District Attorney Harold Dyer Jr. accused Jeff Dodd, his son and three others of Leon McAtee's murder. Said he: "The citizen of Holmes County holds a white man accountable if he commits a crime, the same as he holds a Negro accountable...
Under the wing of Holding Carter, Mississippi's forthright Pulitzer Prizewinning editor, three 28-year-old veterans last month launched the Greenwood (Miss.) Morning Star. In their maiden issue they offered readers some pin money: $1 for each week's best news...
...LELAND THOMPSON, 55, Mississippi-born. Chairman of the Federal Land Bank of New Orleans, tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Roy Thompson has been working in Farm Credit Administration agencies since 1933, but he is no crusader for Government controls. His aim as Chairman of the Decontrol Board: "Get things out from under price controls as quickly as possible; if we can get production going at its proper rate, competitive force can remove the necessity of Government control...
Emboldened by U.S. liberation of the Philippines, the Washington correspondent of the Honolulu Advertiser last week bearded Mississippi's Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, asked cautiously if he favored statehood for Hawaii. Replied "The Man" with portentous solemnity: "It will be a sad day when the Philippines are free...