Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only five of the 500 knew the answers to all twelve questions; every colonial official in the sampling flunked the test. One Frenchman thought that the Mississippi was the longest river in the French empire. Guesses on the empire's population ranged from 30 million to 300 million. A parliamentary undersecretary located the French Atlantic island of Marie Galante as "near Tahiti," which is in the Pacific...
...evaluate the Union: it never occurred to her that from the moment she landed (at New Orleans) she herself would be the one to be roundly devaluated. To begin with, it was a "singular" shock to find that though every man jack of her American fellow travelers on the Mississippi chewed tobacco, reeked of whisky, ate with a knife and grabbed for the table "viands" with "voracious rapidity," one & all had apparently "arrived at high rank in the army...
...Hiss stood trial for perjury in connection with the Whittaker Chambers "pumpkin papers" espionage case (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948 et seq.), he wanted some changes made. Dispensing with the flamboyant talents of Manhattan Lawyer Lloyd Paul Stryker (who got a hung jury last time), Hiss hired a new lawyer: Mississippi-born, Harvard-trained Claude B. Cross, 55, a conservative Bostonian who specializes in business law, but who donated his services in 1947 to the defense of convicted Traitor Douglas...
College football--B. U. 52, West Virginia 20. B. C. 25, Mississippi...
...since summer demand for coal had dropped considerably, negating the effect of the three-day week. Early last week, the anthracite miners ended their sympathy strike, perhaps to persuade their home-heating customers not to switch to oil. Next day, the 22,000 soft coal miners west of the Mississippi returned to their jobs...