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Word: mississippis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians are now willing to let Americans fly over most of Siberia to see what's going on-in exchange for our letting the Russians overfly all the U.S. west of the Mississippi. This is the Soviets' reply to Eisenhower's open-skies plan. Whether to regard it as outrageous (the Pentagon view), grounds for guarded optimism (the State Department view), or simply a Russian attempt to resume the international conversation that Budapest interrupted, is assessed in FOREIGN NEWS, Pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, may 13, 1957 | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...Russia itself. On the other side of the world the Russians offered to open up all of Siberia east of but not including the Lake Baikal atomic test area, in return for an unlimited look at "approximately equal" U.S. territories-Alaska and all of the U.S. west of the Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISARMAMENT: Pieces of the Sky | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...alone indefinitely, most agree that federal aid is not needed now. In Connecticut, only three communities have applied for hardship grants from the state board of education, and the legislature now has a plan before it to put up at least half the cost of local construction. Mississippi, which would probably get $3 back for every dollar it paid out in taxes on any federal-aid bill, is darkly suspicious that the Government will attach strings to its handouts. Governor J. P. Coleman believes that "the state can take care of its own building program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: FEDERAL SCHOOL AID Do the States Want It? | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

Beneath those blunt words-part of a quarter-page advertisement spread through the newspapers in Mississippi's capital city of Jackson one day last week-was the signature of Mississippi's Governor James Plemmon Coleman. With something of a jolt, Mississippians realized that capable, 43-year-old J. P. Coleman, who had worked surprising modernizing reforms during his first year in office without open legislative battles with the state's mossbacks (TIME, March 3), was set to fight right down to the line for a project that he considers fundamental: rewriting the 1890 state constitution, primarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Toward the 20th Century | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...expect it in December, a month before the legislature opens its regular session. Confident of support, when the time comes, from a bloc of young pro-Coleman legislators and from some oldtimers with specific constitutional changes on their minds, Coleman in effect gave to his newspaper question this answer: "Mississippi will have a new constitution. It cannot live without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Toward the 20th Century | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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