Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mississippi Story...
...imprisonment of Veteran Davis Knight in Mississippi for intermarriage, following a revengeful relative's disclosure that Knight's great-grandmother was a Negro [TIME, Dec. 27], is a most flagrant violation of democratic spirit. It is a beautiful story for Russian distribution in Europe and Asia...
This week, network TV made the big jump from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. American Telephone & Telegraph officially opened coaxial cables between Philadelphia and Cleveland. It is now possible for a show to be telecast simultaneously over the area from Boston to Milwaukee to St. Louis and Richmond...
...Taft bill would have passed out 300 million dollars to the states for elementary and secondary schools. Each state was to get a minimum of five dollars for each child; and the poorer states were scheduled to get more--up to nearly 30 dollars per head in Mississippi. Taft figured that he had the biggest bugaboo whipped--federal "dictatorship" in the little red schoolhouse. He said, in debate: "The only function of the federal government would be that of an auditor.... It will have no more to say about the exact method by which education shall be administered...
...retreat via a television broadcast. Said he: "Whittaker Chambers' statement clears Duggan of any implication in the espionage ring." Democratic committee members tore at Mundt like wolves snapping at a fallen fellow. Said Congressman F. Edward Hébert of New Orleans: ". . . a blunder . . . a breach of confidence." Mississippi's loudmouthed old John Rankin cried, self-righteously: "Atrocious...