Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...valid legislative purpose," that the subcommittee had no more right to question Shelton than any other "man off the street," heard his testimony solely to "expose him and others to contempt and ridicule." The investigation was a "reprisal" against the Times, which had frequently criticized the segregationist views of Mississippi's Democratic Senator James Eastland, subcommittee chairman. Rauh pointed out that 30 of the 38 witnesses called to testify in closed session were current or onetime employees of the Times, and the subcommittee's Counsel Sourwine testified that he had made no comparable effort to investigate any other...
AGRICULTURE The Year the FIsh Died Accompanied by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton and a retinue of aides and specialists, President Eisenhower was off this week on his flying threeday, six-state inspection tour of drought-stricken areas beyond the Mississippi. What he would find was nicely summed up by Texas Rancher Stanley Walker, longtime (1928-35) city editor of the New York Herald Tribune, in a byliner for his old newspaper. Wrote Walker of the drought belt's 1956: "It was the year the windmills pumped air, the fish died in the dusty ponds...
...When the Middle East debate ends, and the Senate turns to other legislation, there should be enough sympathetic votes to force the bill out of the Judiciary Committee, lorded over by Chairman James 0. Eastland of Mississippi. And when some 20 diehard Southern Senators attempt to talk the bill to death on the floor, there should be enough votes even under present cloture rules (64) to cut off the filibuster and bring the measure to a vote. In the House, which passed a civil-rights bill last year, the measure should have far less trouble...
...there was more than enough talent to keep the scouts alert. Scout Steve Owen, representing the Philadelphia Eagles, watched Purdue's Len Dawson loft his soft, leading passes and murmured, "What a ball that man throws." He watched big (265 lbs.) Don Owens of little Mississippi Southern play an abso lutely immovable defensive tackle and groaned to think that Don had already been drafted by Pittsburgh. The South's Coach Paul Brown, of the Cleveland Browns, was frankly amazed at the rugged agility of Florida Guard John Barrow. No pro team had yet drafted Barrow, but there...
FIRST MOVE INTO SOUTH will be made by No. 1 U.S. producer of timber products, Tacoma's Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Venturing out of Pacific Northwest, where it holds 2,600,000 acres of timberlands, Weyerhaeuser will take options from Mississippi Pulp & Paper Co. and other local owners on 90,000 acres of logged-off pinelands in Mississippi and Alabama, reforest the land, eventually build a major pulping plant near Columbus, Miss...