Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John grandly took the law into his own ham hands. The choice was a three-day week or an industrywide shutdown. In order "to remove the stresses & strains which could cause industry and public irritation," he ordered miners east of the Mississippi to go back to work after July 4, but only on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays...
Also beyond the budget are uncounted hundreds of other expenditure bills-everything from a crossroads postoffice on up. Biggest of the independent bills is the veterans' pension plan which Mississippi's John Rankin rammed through the House; the VA estimates it would cost an average of $1.4 billion a year...
...Honoria Dabney and their descendants ; how they settled in Mississippi, fought Indians, traded in slaves, cleared land, built roads, made fortunes, formed the Free State of Lebanon (in opposition to the Confederacy) during the Civil...
Between installments of the Dabney saga, Author Street, a onetime Baptist preacher and former newspaperman, wrote a novel of contemporary Mississippi, In My Father's House, and The Gauntlet (TIME, Dec. 24, 1945), which sold 800,000 copies. In the midst of writing Tomorrow We Reap, which carries the Dabney clan beyond 1893, he bogged down, doubted that he could finish the book. Alabama-born James Childers (Laurel and Straw), an Air Force colonel in World War II and a Dabney fan, volunteered to help him. The result is unspectacular, although followers of the Dabneys will want to read...
...sings open-throated, instead of whispering into a microphone). His version of Ellington's Caravan had the fans hitting the trail (along with more than 1,000,000 record buyers). In his own rubbery phrasing, he stretched Ol' Man River to twice the length of the Mississippi, but the audience ate up every mile...