Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mississippi (22) : Governor J. P. Coleman, whose influence will be great, leans to Stevenson, but the delegation is not likely to decide on its man until the civil rights issue is settled...
Greatest Mystery? The mysteries posed by U.S. caves alone are enough to tweak the curiosity of any red-blooded sleuth with a weakness for natural history. Is there one vast water-filled cavern system that arcs from Kentucky to Missouri under the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers? (The presence of one distinct species of blind fish in widely dispersed caves in the region implies such a linkage.) Why is Texas' Kiser Cave full of carbon dioxide? (Three airmen, equipped with oxygen tanks, almost died trying in vain to find the answer.) Do cave-dwelling bats have a burial ground...
With your beautiful pictures of Civil War battlefields you also show two maps, one with Arkansas, but not a single pin point to indicate that we were in that war too. Can't we rate at least a pinpoint acknowledgment? Pea Ridge opened up the Mississippi River for Shiloh and Vicksburg...
Many Southerners, e.g., Governors Le-Roy Collins of Florida and Luther Hodges of North Carolina, were in no hurry to answer Timmerman's letter; other governors, Mississippi's James P. Coleman and Georgia's S. Marvin Griffin, got off polite but noncommittal answers. Less tolerant was the Atlanta Constitution, which acidly editorialized that "history teaches some people few lessons, especially if they happen to be governors of South Carolina." Then it put" its finger squarely on the basic weakness of third-party talk: regardless of how strong the South may feel about civil rights, it "cannot...
...some to run again himself. Though he declined a place in the Missouri delegation to preserve his much-advertised neutrality, Truman seems to be for Harriman, is angry at Stevenson for not following his advice in the past, has set in motion pro-Harriman drumbeating west of the Mississippi...