Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Golden Lie is the story of 16-year-old Foster Lloyd's growing up in Mississippi. Foster worships his tolerant, tippling, easygoing father. He is not sure how to feel about his mother: she is a religious militant who keeps badgering him to come to Sunrise Service when he would much rather hunt and talk with his dad. Foster watches the conflict between his parents work itself out, sees his father crumple in the prime of life, paralyzed by moonshine liquor that the zealous church-folk have spitefully poisoned...
...Golden Lie has faults; Its pace is too slow and its dialogue lacks individual flavor. But it is good as a study of family life, and as a portrait of the natural links between boys it is even better. Mississippi-born Novelist Phillips has already written a competent first novel (The Bitterweed Path); in the critical business of writing his second one he has taken a good step forward...
Four political groups have entered the fight to stay the execution of Willie McGee, Negro convicted of raping a white woman, set for May 8, in Mississippi...
...second time in its long and rambunctious history, Mississippi discovered last week that it was infested with scalawags & carpetbaggers. The new crop of chiselers were patronage peddlers, coattail riders and easy-money boys of the Truman Administration...
...best connections turned out to be his own attorney, Paul Dillon, a Missouri lawyer who was Harry Truman's campaign manager when the President was elected to the Senate in 1934. Dillon once received a $10,000 fee for getting a Capone henchman paroled. Mississippi Congressman John B. Williams, on the floor of the House, angrily referred to Dillon as "a rascal, an underworld character, a fixer, an influence peddler." Another of Hood's Washington "contact men" is Acey Carraway, former financial director of the Democratic National Committee, to whom Hood says he still pays $500 a month...