Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next morning, 84 other Little Rock churches took part in the citywide prayer session suggested by Episcopal Bishop Robert Raymond Brown (TIME, Oct. 14). Some 7,000 citizens, a sizable Saturday morning turnout, prayed for a peaceful, lawful end to Little Rock's troubles. Said Mississippi-born Methodist Minister Aubrey Walton: "We know, our Heavenly Father, that we must share the blame for what has happened in our city. Forgive us for the influence we have not used, for the positions we should have taken but did not take...
TIME, President Eisenhower, the Supreme Court and other do-gooders may as well try-to dam up the Mississippi River as to force white and colored children to go to school together in the deep South...
Died. Eugene Adams Yates, 76, harassed veteran of the politically explosive Dixon-Yates power contract, chairman of the Southern Co., vice president and director of the Alabama, Georgia, Gulf and Mississippi Power Companies; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. When the Atomic Energy Commission contracted with Middle South Utilities head Edgar Dixon and Yates to build a plant near Memphis to supply the AEC with power, the deal was bitterly attacked by public power proponents as a scheme to undercut TVA, became a major 1956 campaign issue...
...years there won't be one significant creative work from east of the Mississippi. The whole cultural map of America is changing." He pointed to the paper-back I held. "He made it possible. He showed that a man with something to say, a voice of significance, a rare talent, can make itself heard no matter the din of garbage disposals and IBM machines." Even from the back streets and brothels of a hungry Paris...
From Nuts to Mud. Many Deep South dailies echoed the blunt sentiments of Little Rock's street crowds. In Mississippi the Jackson Daily News's fire-breathing editor, Major Fred Sullens, addressed a one-word editorial to the President: "Nuts." (New York's Daily News picked up the editorial and flung it back under the headline: MISSISSIPPI MUD.) In Louisiana the Shreveport Journal added its jeer: "Heil Eisenhower! Heil to der great Fuehrer!" A more flattering comparison was made, however, by Mississippi's famed Hodding Carter, who telephoned his Delta Democrat-Times from a Maine vacation...