Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month the Mississippi senate killed a proposed amendment to its constitution, arguing that the change would increase the Negro vote. In contrast, Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina and Gov. Christian A. Herter '15 of Massachusetts have recommended that their legislatures start constitutional amending procedures to permit lowering the age. And Adlai Stevenson, when he was running for the Illinois Governorship in 1948, also advocated the 18 year old vote...
Women's roles in education and the professions are also recorded: the papers of the first woman member of the Mississippi Legislature, the first woman on the Medical School Faculty, letters of women diplomats, explorers and missionaries along with the first records of the P.T.A...
...ultimate power capacity of 320,000 kw., enough to light a city of 500,000, Fort Randall may well serve an immediate purpose of another nature. By impounding high waters this spring, it will not only help prevent floods but also help keep the lower Missouri and Mississippi Rivers navigable this summer if the Southwest's drought continues...
...investigators found that Oilman George Vasen had been convicted of a confidence racket in Iowa 20 years before and served a five-year prison term, had been convicted of a similar offense in Illinois in 1941 (which the state Supreme Court reversed), and later got in trouble in Mississippi over his tung-nut dealings. The SEC tracked down 600 small investors who had poured between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 into Vasen's bottomless well...
...UNION SHOP, which is barred in 14 states (TIME, Feb. 15), was barred in a 15th. Mississippi, by a vote of its legislature, passed a "right to work" bill providing that no one can be fired for refusing to join a union...