Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fall, with its memories of the American past, belonged to the country-to Pennsylvania's huge, hex-marked barns, to the aching distances of the Great Plains, to the great old houses, the sharecroppers' shacks and black soil of the Mississippi Delta, to Montana's Bitterroot Mountains and the foaming rivers and screaming headsaws of the Pacific Northwest. Last week, north, south, east and west, the U.S. was a fat and prosperous land...
...Mississippi and Arkansas had the biggest cotton crop in a decade. Countless tons of grapes were on their way to wineries in California. The far West's army of "fruit tramps" picked apples in Washington's Wenatchee and Yakima Valleys. In Illinois, Iowa and Indiana, the greatest corn crop in history awaited picking. Tractor-drawn drills were seeding wheat in the fields of Kansas and Nebraska. Sweating cowhands and their sweating mounts were cutting herds in the Southwest...
...Dewey. He would not win Florida, Kentucky or Virginia, but he might get just enough there to give those states to Dewey. He was a fair bet to win Georgia and Louisiana, a very good bet to win Alabama, and a sure thing in his own state and in Mississippi. The popular vote which he polled would be a partial measure of the South's emotions and a measure of the extent of the Southern political revolt...
...Civil Rights Committee flatly recommended outlawing the anti-Negro practices of the South. Such fiery Southerners as Fielding Lewis Wright, governor of Mississippi, forthwith raised the cry of secession-from the Democratic Party, not the nation. When President Truman urged Congress to enact his committee's recommendations into law, the outcry could be heard from Charleston to Little Rock...
Another duty of the Dean of Freshmen is touring the country's high schools as a salesman for the University. Dean Leighton's circuit includes Illinois, Nebraska and lowa. On these trips he particularly tries to debunk the notion that boys west of the Mississippi don't do well at Harvard and after graduation are no good to the folks at home. Mr. Leighton points out, by way of example, that two members of his class are now police chief and fire commissioner of Tulsa and Oklahoma City...