Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mississippi voters had chosen him as their U.S. Senator-three times in twelve years they had chosen him. Last week he arrived in Washington to claim the seat to which he was entitled by the vote of the sovereign state of Mississippi...
...Republicans also proposed to solve the housing problem, so bungled by the Truman Administration that the solution must be started all over again. Other domestic matters, such as the seating of Mississippi's Senator-elect Theodore Bilbo (see below), will get their early attention. Such important questions as integration of the armed services and universal military training will be postponed until the GOPriority legislation is well on its way to becoming...
With this gloved haymaker, the Senate's War Investigating Committee this week summed up its findings against Mississippi's wily, ailing Theodore Gilmore Bilbo...
Thus, three weeks before he was to "have supplanted Governor Ellis Arnall in office, the controversial career of Georgia's "Wild Man from Sugar Creek" came to its end. No contemporary politicians except Louisiana's Huey Long and Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo had appealed so successfully to ignorance and bigotry. Gene Talmadge had been vehemently for keeping "the nigger" in his place. He had opposed high wages and labor unions, and had taken a dim view of education for the masses...
Carville, isolated in an unhealthy swamp on the Mississippi, 75 miles north of New Orleans, was founded by the Sisters of Charity in 1894 as a lepers' retreat. The Federal Government took it over in 1921. Patients are still called "inmates." Most use fictitious, names, to protect their families. Their outgoing letters are sterilized before mailing. They occupy their time with bicycling, movies, reading, dances, golfing on a small links. They are allowed visitors and two weeks' leave at home each year, but visits home are difficult because lepers may not travel on trains, buses or other common...