Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republican candidates for the presidential nomination had one more delegate to worry about. As a result of a congressional redistricting, Mississippi's delegation to the Republican National Convention was increased from four to five. Last week's box score of delegates who are openly committed or who have formally announced their preferences...
...Southerners paid $50 apiece to squeeze into four dining rooms of the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel for Dick Russell's opening campaign fund dinner. Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge and three neighboring governors-South Carolina's James F. Byrnes, Florida's Fuller Warren and Mississippi's Hugh White-were on hand. There were delegations from Louisiana, Texas and Alabama. It was an impressive launching of the S.S. Southern Democrat...
President Truman will fly to an Omaha meeting of Midwest Governors today to draft plans for combatting one of the worst floods in American history. The White House set up the meeting as the rampaging Missouri and Mississippi rivers reached record breaking heights...
...Crooked Way is Mississippi-born Elizabeth Spencer's second novel, and it is almost a compendium of all the fashionable faults likely to be found in a young highbrow novelist. Her characters seem scooped from Faulkner rather than observed from life. Her technique of letting several characters tell the story in rotation, also reminiscent of Faulkner, is much too complex for her simple materials. And a throbby, portentous style suggests that, so far, she is more concerned with displaying her sensibility than releasing her story...
General Douglas MacArthur did not come out for Senator Taft in his Mississippi speech last Saturday, although such an endorsement was both needed and expected by the Ohio Republican. Instead, the General chose to deliver a thirty-seven minute cry of doom and denunciation that reached a new level of bitter political partisanship and may herald an independent bid for office...