Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Himself an ardent admirer of Ike Eisenhower, Texan Johnson obviously was trying to use the President's great popularity to build up the strength of the Democratic Party. In Mississippi, where the party has been badly split (in 1948 the state went Dixiecrat; in 1952 Ike got 39% of the vote, the best any Republican has done since reconstruction days), Johnson's new line was exactly what the Democrats wanted to hear. They cheered him lustily, and held long huddles with Steve Mitchell, the first Democratic national chairman who ever worked at his job in Mississippi...
When the love feast was over, Democratic State Chairman Thomas Jefferson Tubb seemed to think that Johnson and Mitchell had served just the right political victuals. Roared Tubb: "Those who say the Democratic Party in Mississippi is no more, let them listen and let them quiver...
...borrowed a pair of long drawers that were too big, and a pair of pants that were too tight," he said. "I was uncomfortable all the time." The river camp to which the party repaired made him nervous-it floated on empty gasoline drums, and "when the Mississippi went up, the house went up with it." Furthermore, at 5 in the morning, everybody else decided to stay by the fire. Lamar and his then assistant, Turner L. Smith, dutifully set out with a guide-who quickly demonstrated that he was drunk by heading their powerboat straight for a grove...
Although he is a Harvard graduate, Pusey is the first president of the University to be born West of the Mississippi. A native of Council Bluffs, the 46-year old Pusey is a graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School of that city...
...Stretch on the River (TIME, July 24, 1950) was a ribald first novel about the life Bissell had known as a Mississippi River pilot. In The Monongahela, he used more personal experience to pump some fresh water into the brackish Rivers of America series. More recently, Bissell has been working in his family's clothing factory in Dubuque, Iowa. The result is 7½ Cents, a novel about life in an Iowa pajama factory...