Word: mississippians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee, as Lawyer Stewart well knew, was run by Mississippian James O. Eastland, a veteran lawyer himself, and was studded with high-seniority Southerners. Still and forevermore rankled by the high court's 1954 school desegregation ruling-a case in which Stewart played no part-Eastland & Co. lost no time putting Stewart on trial...
...heart ailment; in Princeton, N.J. "The role of the editor," said Saxe Commins, "is to be invisible"; yet his hidden persuasion had profound effect on modern American literature. Friend and editor of William Faulkner since Mosquitoes in 1927, Commins in recent years cleared working space for the Mississippian in his Manhattan office and Princeton home, provided the right kind of stimulation for the novelist's production of A Fable and The Town. Also editor of Sherwood Anderson, James Michener, Gertrude Stein, W. H. Auden, Robinson Jeffers, Budd Schulberg and Irwin Shaw, Commins long directed Random House's Modern...
Striding three paces forward from the swinging central doors of the House of Representatives chamber, Doorkeeper William M. ("Fishbait") Miller sucked breath and bellowed the call that has been his prerogative for eight congressional sessions. Cried Mississippian Miller: "Mistuh Speakuh, the President of the United States!" A packed chamber's applause pealed out as Dwight Eisenhower, following Doorkeeper Miller and followed himself by an escort of four Senators and two Representatives, made his smiling way down the aisle to the House well...
Faulkner scarcely believes in the good old plantation Sartorises and the old Southern heaven, but he believes in its present hell. He is a Manichaean and a Mississippian, a confused and magnificent novelist whose magnificence comes from his confusion and that of the people he has made...
...Williams of the university that Kershaw had said he would give some of his winnings to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Morrow suggested that Williams "revoke the Reverend's invitation ever to appear in Mississippi." Later Kershaw wrote a letter to the student Mississippian conceding that he had indeed supported the N.A.A.C.P. because "I am convinced that the core of religious faith is love of God and neighbor." Though Kershaw's scheduled topic ("Religion and Drama") sounded innocent enough, Chancellor Williams told the rector that he had better stay home...