Word: mississippians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mississippian, one of the most influential members of the Senate, served notice that he will oppose President Roosevelt's plan to lift the legal limit of the National Debt from $45,000,000,000 to fifty billion...
...gadfly of successive Republican Administrations. Equipped with a deep, mellow drawl, a sharp Southern wit, the tall, loose-jointed Mississippian drew a laugh, scored a hit almost every time he rose to tease, tweak, twit and torment the party in power...
...remain the arduous task of steering it through Floor debate and conference compromise. And this year Pat Harrison is eager to close up his desk, be off for home. It is not that he dislikes Washington, for no Senator enjoys life in the Capital more than this small town Mississippian. A one time college and semiprofessional pitcher, he likes being where he can get off to a big-league baseball game with Vice President Garner as often as possible. He likes being near the Burning Tree Golf Club where he shoots in the 80's with Democratic Senator Barkley...
...waste, graft or outright thievery in his associates but, with sound reason, he regards ingratitude as the blackest and basest of crimes. Last week Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo made his first real news as a U. S. Senator when he opened fire on a fellow-Mississippian as a double-dyed political ingrate...
...nearly as efficient as his enemy's; he sometimes made poor use of his artillery and cavalry. Many an anecdote bears witness to Lee's quiet good manners, his inability to bluster. Riding over the field of the second battle of Manassas he came upon a marauding Mississippian asked him why he was not with his command. Roundly cursed as "a cowardly Virginia cavalryman," Lee laughed, rode away "subdued." As he watched the critical charge at Chancellorsville he sat calmly