Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came largely from the violently segregationist Third Congressional District in the northwest (Tallahassee). There, Stevenson's supporters, including veteran (eight terms) U.S. Representative Robert L. F. ("Daddy") Sikes, campaigned hard for their candidate as a man the South can trust on the race issue. The locals called in Mississippi's Political Strategist Sam Wilhite, who was a key manager in U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland's campaign, to help Stevenson's cause; they gave wide circulation to a newspaper editorial that branded Kefauver as a "leftwing integrationist" and a "sycophant" for the Negro vote. As Florida...
...Daddy's Hands. In California Adlai Stevenson's supporters had to sell him as more liberal than Kefauver. To ward that end, they imported an entirely different breed of Democrat than the Floridians brought from Mississippi. From New York they summoned onetime (1944-50) U.S. Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas and Eleanor Roosevelt to testify as "character witnesses" for Stevenson's liberalism, particularly on the civil-rights issue. As any performer in the political circus knows, flying cross-country from the hands of Sam Wilhite and Daddy Sikes to the trapeze platforms of Helen Douglas and Eleanor Roosevelt...
After clinging for so long to the solitude of his work and his Mississippi home, Novelist William (A Fable, The Sound and the Fury) Faulkner of late has been tasting-and enjoying-the pleasures of loquacity. In what might be called his transformation from hermitage to Hermitage (of a good year, of course), Faulkner has been reluctant to talk about the one subject he is most qualified to discuss-the art of writing. But for the new issue of the English-language quarterly, the Paris Review, Novelist Faulkner relented sufficiently to deliver some explicit comments on his trade...
...missiles: Terrier, Talos and Tartar, Regulus, Petrel, Sparrow and Sidewinder. With a big stock of conventional big-gun ammunition on hand, the Navy is making no more (except for target rounds). The missile cruisers Boston and Canberra are in service with their radar-controlled antiaircraft Terriers. The ancient battleship Mississippi, converted three years ago to a missile carrier, is a busy floating laboratory for missile development. Two conventional submarines. Tunny and Barbero, have been converted to missiles, and two more conversions are authorized. The Navy is asking funds for five more cruiser conversions, along with four new missile-launching frigates...
...past, the NAACP has often moved in areas where maximum resistance could be expected: in the Mississippi delta area, for instance, where the Negro sometimes outnumbers the white and where feudal relationships are strongest. In the future, however, the NAACP should confine actual integration cases either to major Southern cities--such as Atlanta, Birmingham, and Jackson--where indications are that natural development has brought the races to a point where integration is possible, or to areas where the Negro population is negligible--such as the Mississippi Gulf Coast...