Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate last week a dogged trio of liberal Democrats-Missouri's Tom Hennings, New York's Herbert Lehman and Illinois' Paul Douglas-urged the Senate to blast the Administration's Civil Rights bill out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Argued Paul Douglas, while Mississippi's Jim Eastland, Judiciary Committee chairman, chomped on a dead cigar: "If we pierce behind the complex rules and procedures, we know, as men, that the rules of the Senate have been very skillfully devised to prevent any action on civil rights which is obnoxious to the members from the South...
...still only one desegregated area-Oak Ridge, which is under federal control. In Louisiana the only major move against segregation has come from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, whose parochial schools are now being integrated. In the rest of the South -Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida-elementary and secondary schools remain as rigidly segregated as ever...
What is worse, resistance to integration has been steadily mounting. More than 70 pro-segregation bills or resolutions, ranging from outright nullification resolutions in Georgia and Alabama to a Mississippi bill authorizing special secret agents to spy on integrationists, have come before Southern legislatures. The number of private organizations formed to fight desegregation has climbed to 46, with the Citizens' Councils alone claiming 500,000 members. Other activities of the pro-segregationists last week: ¶ In a special session of the Florida legislature, the state house of representatives passed four bills to circumvent a state supreme court ruling that...
...head the agency, World Bank President Eugene Black (TIME, June 25) tapped one of his own top lieutenants, Mississippi-born Robert L. (for Livingston) Garner, 61, who still talks in a deep Southern drawl, despite his 37 years as a Northern banker-businessman (vice president of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., General Foods Corp. and, since 1947, the World Bank). Garner's IFC starts with a fund of $78.4 million, hopes to prove that private enterprise in underdeveloped countries pays off, attract other investors who might normally be wary of investing in backward lands...
...MISSISSIPPI. Despite the stifling heat in Jackson's city auditorium, Governor James Plemon Coleman quickly whipped the state convention into line, eased a Coleman majority into the 44-man unit-rule delegation. He thus headed off the rebels who wanted to make third-party noises before the convention and left himself free to bargain in Chicago for the loosest civil-rights plank...