Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech stunned liberal Mississippi newsmen (said one: "He isn't that kind of guy at all"). More important, it was characteristic of the intemperate reactions to the Supreme Court's segregation decision that have begun to come out of the Deep...
...first and freshest pictorial record of Indian life west of the Mississippi was made during the 1830s by iron-willed George Catlin. The civilized world had been taught to regard the Indians either as demigods (by James Fenimore Cooper) or as demihumans (by frontiersmen's reports). Catlin showed them as they were and as they lived. His pictures came as a revelation to Manhattan, London and Paris...
...ground of "fairness," many a Southern newspaper has stopped identifying Negroes as such, especially when the description is not really relevant to the story (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950). Last week Southern newspapers learned that dropping the race tag can be prudent as well as fair. In Mississippi Mrs. Mary Dunigan, a waitress, sued the Natchez Times (circ. 5,438) for mistakenly identifying her as a Negro. Although the paper printed an apologetic correction, the State Supreme Court at Jackson last week awarded her $5,000 damages. Ruled the court: "In this state, to assert in print that a white woman...
...that the halt en route was not omitted. He took the other bright gemstones of the Triple Crown, the Preakness at a mile and three-sixteenths and the Belmont at a mile and a half, and just about every other three-year-old prize worth having east of the Mississippi. It proved that in addition to speed, the Dancer had stamina; the greater the distance, the better he seemed to go. But in September 1953 Trainer Winfrey detected some soreness in the Dancer's left forefoot and a limp in his walk. It was a stone bruise. The Dancer...
Head of the "Solid State Group" of the United states Geological Survey in Washington, D.C., Garrels has done field work in Newfoundland, the Mississippi Valley, the Boulder river area of Montana, and the Colorado Plateaus...