Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state convention earlier in the week, Mississippi Democrats also voted to back the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket. After the convention adjourned, some dissidents held a rump meeting of "Democrats for Eisenhower," named an independent slate of electors pledged...
...regions of a formidable continent. For seven years, the Missouri Valley has been the scene of one of the greatest land and water control and development projects ever attempted, a spectacular 35-year, $15 billion state & federal public works program designed to tame the huge watershed, stretching from the Mississippi River to the Great Divide. Since August 1945, when the ten valley states and six federal agencies joined in an informal, voluntary federation (the Interagency Committee) to put the Missouri Valley development program into effect, engineers have...
This summer, two of TIME'S visiting faculty members were from Dartmouth College - George Theriault and Alexander Fanelli (who has since transferred to Mississippi State College). Theriault is a member of the faculty steering committee for Dartmouth's required "Great Issues" course, which introduces seniors to some of the problems the students will face as citizens of their communities. A part of this course is known as "Voices of Issues," an analysis of the way these problems are treated in the press...
...Governor Hugh White of Mississippi, who told reporters he thought Stevenson was "an elegant gentleman and a very capable...
...Department of Agriculture moved in smoothly and efficiently. On order of Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan, it designated as disaster areas parts of Missouri and Arkansas and the entire states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maine and Massachusetts. (Maine's Republican commissioner of agriculture, Fred Nutter, snapped that Washington had made Maine a disaster area over his objection. "They wanted us to ask for it," said he, "and we didn't want it.") The disaster rating allowed farmers to apply for 3% Government loans to finance their next crops, and assured them of an extension...