Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noted with interest the depledging of a Chinese student at Northwestern University [Nov. 12]. Thought you would be interested in the pledging of a Chinese-American student at Mississippi State College for Women. Now what does prejudice have to do with geography...
Last (with Mississippi) of the dry states, Oklahoma is a stronghold of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Drys. The state was dry when it entered the union in 1907, and has remained militantly dry since; six repeal referendums have been defeated (as much through the bootleggers' efforts as the W.C.T.U.'s). Today there are no open saloons, but a $100 million-a-year bootleg business will supply 400 varieties of liquor at reasonable prices to anyone who wants them. On the other hand, the state loses $15 million each year-in tax revenues...
...Volunteers were doing no better than a 7-7 tie. A locker-room talk from Coach Bowden Wyatt and a message from Athletic Director General Bob Neyland, scouting in the pressbox. corrected the team's mistakes. Now the Volunteers began to get the jump, and they forced Mississippi's first big mistake: an intercepted Mississippi pass led to a quick touchdown. Then, with Majors faking Ole Miss defenders off balance and hitting his receivers with passes that practically had handles, Tennessee went in front to stay, 21-7. After that, a well-drilled second team smothered the Mississippi...
Pennsylvania, the leading consumer of Government surpluses, last fiscal year got free food for 867,337 people in 58 of its 67 counties. Sixty of Mississippi's 82 counties draw Government food; $325,000 worth was distributed to 102,000 people in September, and the state expects twice as many people to line up by January, popularly known as "furnish" (handout) time. From July to September this year, 224,566 Michigan residents got 4,371,000 Ibs. of free groceries worth $1,220,000. In Arkansas, some 17% of the state's population gets the handouts...
...people on the county's free-food rolls would be removed if they were investigated, but there are not enough county workers to check on them. Taxpayers-and politicians-have learned that opposition to the program is extremely unpopular. The program has other faults and inequalities; e.g., a Mississippi family of four is eligible only if its income is under $100 a month, but a Michigan family of four can get free supplies if its income is under $265 a month...