Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last of Cambridge's armor-plated fire engines will head for the Mississippi and beyond at 4 a.m. tomorrow morning, and will give up to eight Harvard and Radcliffe students a free ride home...
...rooms, Seymour E. Harris more, we are certain that the NAACP, as do most thinking Americans, sympathizes with what Mr. Halberstam calls "the South's problems." But this does not mean that it must acquiesce in, and remain silent about, the South's hesitancy--and in some places (e.g., Mississippi refusal--to do something about its problems. Such would be tantamount to a denial of the very democratic principles upon which this country was founded...
...that the pumper could defray part of the trip's expenses by fighting local fires between here and Kenosha. Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 has suggested that repairs could be made by local companies, but Fire Chief Henry E. Kilfoyle assured the city council that "nobody cast of the Mississippi...
Other council members have suggested that Edward J. Sullivan, the council's only truckdriver, would be a logical choice to drive the pumper across the Mississippi. But Kilfoyle won't let Sullivan near the engine...
There was an orderly meeting of solid Mississippi citizens in Jackson (pop. 117,000) one day last week. Present in the city auditorium were 2,000 planters and small businessmen, 40 state legislators, Congressman John Bell Williams and Governor Hugh White. They were well-dressed people of the sort found at Rotary meetings or dancing at the country club. This was the first statewide meeting of the Mississippi Association of Citizens' Councils. They were addressed by U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland. His subject: school desegregation. Said...