Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...venerable State Capitol at Richmond, where Robert E. Lee accepted his commission as commander of the rebel Virginia troops, the governors of four Southern states last week proclaimed a pattern of opposition to the Supreme Court of the U.S. Governors Thomas Stanley of Virginia, James Plemon Coleman of Mississippi, Marvin Griffin of Georgia and George Bell Timmerman Jr. of South Carolina jointly declared that the Federal Government had no power to prohibit the segregation of races in the public schools. (North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges attended as an "observer," did not sign the declaration because his state legislature...
...path of interposition led in a direction that sober Southerners faced with aching hearts. But they were caught in a way of life, a political position and a social structure from which retreat was not easy. In Richmond this week, the governors of Mississippi, South Carolina and Georgia will meet with Virginia's Governor Thomas Stanley to discuss the doctrine of interposition. No doubt, there is a better answer than Civil...
Died. Rudolf S. Hecht, 70, financier, board chairman of the Mississippi Shipping Co. and of New Orleans' famed foreign-trade center, International House; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. A lifelong advocate of U.S.-Latin American relations, he engineered last year's Inter-American Investment Conference, sponsored by the city of New Orleans and TIME Inc., to persuade U.S. businessmen to invest in Latin American markets...
...Mississippi, a group of lawyers and legislators, headed by U.S. Senator James Eastland, urged the state to nullify the Supreme Court's decision. Governor-elect J. P. Coleman countered that such action would be nothing less than an "invitation to the Federal Government to send troops into Mississippi." He himself has come out for some sort of "interposition," has hinted that he will make his position clear in his inaugural address this week...
...Lunkhead." For its opening witness in three days of Washington hearings, the subcommittee, headed by Mississippi Democrat James O. Eastland, called slight, white-haired James Glaser, 56, a copyreader on the Fair-Dealing New York Post. Glaser said that he was a Communist when he worked on a copy desk of the Times, which he quit in 1934 to become managing editor of the Daily Worker at a 35% cut in salary. He told a vivid story of his buffeting in that job (see below). Two years later he worked up "the strength" to quit both the party...