Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMONG the most robust of U.S. politicians is Mississippi's 74-year-old Governor Hugh White, who was stricken with coronary thrombosis in 1938, while serving his first term in office. (He was elected again in 1951.) Eleven weeks later, White went back to work. "I had a special session of the legislature on at the time," White recalls, "and the next year I was out stumping all over the state, trying to get Senator Bilbo's seat in Washington. That was no easy job. I lost the election -but it wasn't because I wasn...
...action was designed to throw into the courts the hot question of whether the U.S. Government should pay the Dixon-Yates combine some $3,000,000 for preliminary work on the proposed power plant in Arkansas across the Mississippi from Memphis. The work was done before the AEC, having been assured that the city of Memphis would build the necessary power facilities, canceled the Dixon-Yates contract. Upon receiving the AEC notice last week, Edgar Dixon, president of Middle South Utilities, promptly announced that Dixon-Yates will sue. To get a judicial ruling on the controversial question, the Eisenhower Administration...
...Gulf Coast to gather oil from offshore fields. A syndicate of Texas oilmen have formed a new company called Offshore Gathering Corp., plan to spend $150 million for a 364-mile oil and gas line running 25 miles offshore (at a depth of 60 ft.) between Texas and Mississippi. If FPC approves, work will start next year...
They found Charlie eventually, floating in the Mississippi River, a smoking carcass gnawed by river rats, in a wooden dugout...
...order to understand how Southerners feel about race relations one must imagine himself born into a heritage of white supremacy and seeming Negro shiftlessness. This attitude, which is reinforced by everything one sees and hears in Mississippi, can be altered by only one method--improved education. Unfortunately, not only the public schools but both universities here are state-supported and thus committed to segregation in practice and theory. With these facts in mind, the NAACP, although entitled to emotionalism, should be prepared to accept its consequences...