Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Very Sorry." Next day the delegates fanned out across Capitol Hill to pin down their Congressmen on civil rights. Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender was ready to agree to everything, even the dispatch of U.S. troops to keep order in Mississippi. Virginia's segregationist Democratic Representative Howard W. Smith declined to see the delegates: "A waste of your time and mine." Most dramatic confrontation came when Mississippi's Gus Courts walked into the office of Missis sippi's James O. Eastland. Courts told the Senator how he had been shot, whereupon Eastland shook his head...
...disasterous culminations as this one, but in the long run, they have proved to be consistent money-losers. For instance, when the Pudding produced their hundredth show "Here's the Pitch," in 1948, the producers decided to celebrate. They sent the play to every big city east of the Mississippi, and ended up with a deficit of over $13,000. Since then, the Pudding has attempted to curtail such ambition...
...national politics is the extension of the two-party system into the South. Hall believes that Ike will carry both Florida and Texas again this year. He is working to enlarge the G.O.P. enclaves of 1952, last week had two organizational task forces working in South Carolina and Mississippi. "I am determined," says Chairman Hall, "that we are at least going to have sound, healthy organizations in all of the 48 states...
...immigration and citizenship. It studies all amendments proposed to the U.S. Constitution. It handles civil rights matters. Last week, after the death of Chairman Harley Kilgore, the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee went to a man considered by many to be the nation's most dangerous demagogue: Mississippi's racist Senator James Eastland...
...white race-their civil rights, their right to be free and to share fully in the bounties of civilization . . . I must in candor say that the N.A.A.C.P. is vulnerable to attack. It is not one of my favorite organizations. It is as radical on its side as [Mississippi's] Senator Eastland is on his. By trying to hurry too fast, it could violate the spirit if not the word of the Supreme Court decision quite as grossly as Senator Eastland in trying to defeat it. It is contributing nothing toward a calm and rational working out of a very...