Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mississippi's Governor Fielding L. Wright gave Negroes some advice on achieving social equality: "If any of you have become so deluded as to want to enter our white schools, patronize our hotels, enjoy social equality with whites [I] advise you to make your home in some state other than Mississippi...
Sculptor William Zorach, whose thickish handiwork stands in eight leading U.S. museums, got an offer from the state of Mississippi, turned it down the same day. No, he would not carve a monument to the late Senator Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo; he "could not face the world" if he did-and, offhand, he wasn't able to think of any sculptor who could...
...reminded last week that the real battle of the cold war is far from won-or even fully joined. Addressing the Mississippi Valley World Trade Conference in New Orleans,* Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the No. 2 Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, put the case bluntly. Said...
S.472 would help equalize educational opportunities in all the states by unequal expenditures of $300 million in federal funds. New York, which spends the most on education, would get only $5 for every schoolkid; Mississippi, which spends the least, would get $28.50. Objective: a $50-a-year minimum outlay for the education of every U.S. child. Such controversial issues as segregation and aid to parochial schools were bypassed by a provision allowing each state "home rule" on use of federal funds...
...field hands once sang the song in the flat Mississippi Valley fields where the St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) railroad meanders down from St. Louis to Memphis, then spraddles put over the Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas hinterland. This week the year of Jubilo began for the Cotton Belt's common stockholders. The Cotton Belt, which went bankrupt in 1935, finally paid a common stock dividend ($5), its first in its 57 years...