Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just a little old harmless gathering-until the professor gave the rebel yell. A few dozen United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Children of the Confederacy and Mississippi's Representative John Rankin had assembled in the National Capitol's high-domed Statuary Hall to commemorate the 139th birthday of the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. With routine reverence, the ladies placed a wreath before the eight-foot bronze statue of Jefferson Davis (which stared gloomily north). Then they sat back to listen to a eulogy by sallow, hawk-nosed...
Still the rains fell. Gradually, inch by boiling, brown inch, the angry Mississippi crept higher on its banks. By this week, The River had smashed eight levees, flooded about 25,000 acres. Unless the sun came out promptly, and to stay, the people of the U.S. middle border would remember June 1947 for a long, long time...
...teacher a plump prize: $2,500 to improve her own education, a trip to Chicago to appear on the Quiz Kid program, and the title of "Best Teacher of 1947." Miss Neal was delighted-"not so much for myself, but because of the favorable light it places on Mississippi." Eddie was pretty happy, too: he got $100 for his heartfelt, well-spelled praise. The three judges (Northwestern, Michigan and Notre Dame professors) sifted through 33,000 letters, spent a day in the classrooms and homes of the likeliest nominees...
...flat refusal to be brushed off lightly was having its effect. Stassenites claimed growing strength, spreading out from Minnesota through the upper Mississippi Valley, into the prairie and border states, with tentacles reaching into New England and the Pacific Northwest. The pros could dismiss much of that as sheer partisan exuberance. But a Gallup poll a fortnight ago showed 44% of G.O.P. voters approving his policies, only 21% opposed (for Dewey, 74%; opposed...
...years since V-E day the U.S. has never let its sympathy for Europe's 1,000,000 displaced persons interfere with its airtight immigration laws. At the first hint of a leak last summer, Mississippi's frog-voiced John Rankin had trumpeted the considered opinion of many another quota-conscious Congressman: "There are too many so-called refugees pouring into this country bringing with them communism, atheism, anarchy and infidelity." But last week a House Judiciary subcommittee gingerly got ready to hold hearings on a bill by Illinois' Congressman William G. Stratton, which would admit...