Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high. Government-supported price system favoring the small marginal farmer. Cotton economists are convinced that the marginal farmer must get out of cotton to make way for the big mechanized producer, who can farm vast tracts of land on the Texas plains, California's well-irrigated valleys or Mississippi's rich delta lands -and do it at such a low cost that he can compete, without government subsidies, with both synthetic fibers and foreign cotton...
Outside Pressure. For Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman, who led the five-man Southern wing of the subcommittee over the rough flooring of the plank, the results were "palatable"; i.e., the plank was not shoved down his throat. His willingness to negotiate had kept the committee from blowing up altogether. But he and his fellow Southerners were sure of one thing: they would not countenance a change in the wording that would indicate any pledge to implement the Supreme Court's decision. This settled, John McCormack called for a vote at 2:45 a.m. For the record...
...most effective lightning rod of them all turned out to be a Southerner: Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman. Husky, affable Governor Coleman, who learned how to handle extremists in his home state, kept his head when the thunder began to rumble at Chicago. Under his steadying hand, Platform Committee Southerners sat silent, although glum, through a parade of outspokenly civil-righteous witnesses, e.g., A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who demanded that "the Democratic Party must declare that it is not in favor of thwarting a decision of the Supreme Court...
...Mississippi (22): Governor J. P. Coleman favors. Stevenson, but Mississippi is unlikely to decide until after the civil-rights plank is settled...
Imagining himself a Negro at the suggestion of the Negro monthly Ebony, Mississippi's Nobel Prizewinning Author William Faulkner told how he would seek equal rights, turned out a piece not likely to please most Southern whites (few of whom buy Ebony). A colored Faulkner would advise the leaders of his race "to send every day to the white school to which he was entitled by his ability and capacity to go, a student of my race, fresh and cleanly dressed, courteous, without threat or violence, to seek admission."Among antagonistic whites, Faulkner asks himself, "Would you find...