Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rose hawk-nosed, Aussie-born Harry Bridges himself to rant in down-under accents against Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland. Noting that Eastland and his Internal Security Subcommittee were westward bound and due in Honolulu soon to investigate Communist infiltration, Bridges threatened that I.L.W.U. members might leave their pineapple and sugar plantations, knock off work at the piers and meet the Subcommittee with an angry aloha...
Unions Grow Up. Though integrated Honolulu bears no love for Mississippi's Eastland, it recoiled next morning at a newspaper picture of Harry Bridges and Attorney General Sylva shaking hands while Jack Hall hovered in the background. Shocked, Governor Samuel Wilder King summoned Sylva to his office at Iolani Palace for a 20-minute lecture. The gist of his angry remarks: Sylva had no business honoring convicted Communist Hall, who was on bond pending an appeal "only because of the extreme leniency of American...
...Powell was no longer considered a Democrat, what about Mississippi's pure-white Democratic Representative John Bell Williams, who backed States'-Righter T. Coleman Andrews against Adlai Stevenson? Was that a case of another color? Well, said Sheppard, his group had not "as yet gone through the entire employment category and classified Democrats v. Republicans...
Tennessee's slow-starting Volunteers looked like anything but the nation's top team they were cracked up to be. By the end of the first quarter last week they were losing to Mississippi 7-0, and that seemed only the beginning. Time after time, Ole Miss passes caught the Volunteer secondary flatfooted; Tennessee fumbles stopped every drive before it was well started. But Tennessee Quarterback Johnny Majors was magnificently unflustered. While his team got untracked, Johnny killed time with old-fashioned football: he punted and prayed for the breaks...
...getting so cold on the upper reaches of the Mississippi that the University of Minnesota football team decided on a year-end vacation. Pasadena's Rose Bowl seemed just the place. "We've talked it all over," said Coach Murray Warmath, "and if we're good enough, we'd like to go." The unbeaten Gophers figured to be more than good enough to beat Iowa's corn-fed Hawkeyes and earn the trip to California...