Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only read TIME to see what new slur it has for the white people of the South, whether it is race trouble in Georgia or Mississippi, or a goose pulling in South Carolina...
Like many a playboy before him, Winthrop needed only a cause to set him to work. He found it in the plight of his adopted state, the butt of countless hillbilly jokes and the state with the second-lowest per-capita income in the union (lowest: Mississippi). Jobs were so scarce that 400,000 residents had been forced to leave the state in search of work. To check the emigration, the business men of Arkansas, under the leadership of C. Hamilton Moses, then chairman of Arkansas Power & Light, set up the Arkansas Economic Council in the middle 1940s to attract...
...ready to appropriate a healthy $500,000 budget for the commission, was preparing to pass a raft of new bills that will help the commission do its work better. Perhaps the most satisfying feature of the industrial renaissance for Arkansans is the fact that other Southern states such as Mississippi, Alabama and Texas are making inquiries to find out how Arkansas has done so well. Says Executive Director Rock: "When you get Texas asking for advice, you know you're doing a good...
...have farmed in Choctaw County for 122 years; Great-Grandfather Daniel Coleman held 105 taxable slaves, worked 1,725 acres. Introduced to courthouse politics at ten by his grandfather, J.P. was taught at 15 to read the Congressional Record every day. At 17 he enrolled in the University of Mississippi, the first Coleman to attain college since pre-Civil War days. At 17 he was also on the hustings rounding up audiences for Gubernatorial Candidate Martin Conner; at 21 he went to Washington as Mississippi Congressman Aaron L. Ford's secretary. Returning home with an Indiana-born wife, Coleman...
...whom Hill-Countryman Coleman holds no particular affection. So far, the governor has not announced such an intention. But if Coleman does make the run, and does, as the odds would indicate, beat Eastland, nothing could better convince the rest of the U.S. that a thoroughly awakened Mississippi knows the difference between an 1890 oxcart and a 1957 Jet plane...