Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest atrocity from behind the Grits and Gravy Curtain moves me to suggest that Mississippi, Georgia and Unoccupied Florida secede from the Union forthwith, all white Deep Southerners to receive free passage to another Union more in line with their philosophy-that of South Africa. To fill this welcome vacuum, let us then admit Hawaii and Alaska to statehood. I am sure that they would contribute more to the glory of the U.S. than treacly novels, Neanderthal politicians and made-to-measure propaganda for the Soviet Union...
...unfair. "Missouri has none of the problems of desegregation which shackle us," they would say. "It is a border state. Even in its big cities, like St. Louis, the proportion of white to colored children is still large. How would you like to send your child to a Mississippi school, where the Negro children far outnumber the white...
...Till trial [Oct. 3] made us realize as never before how fortunate we were to be born with white skins. Our conscience makes the way of life in Mississippi as nauseating as the way of life in Russia. And what difference is there between...
...dealers attend finds Sullivan on hand with a load of entertainers. To further the cause of Lincoln-Mercury, Ed has addressed steelworkers before their blast furnaces in Pittsburgh, landed on Boston Common in a helicopter, gone down 20 ft. in a Navy diving suit and sailed up the Mississippi in a barge before 75,000 spectators at the opening of the Memphis Cotton Carnival. His identification with his sponsor is so strong that any Lincoln or Mercury buyer who is dissatisfied with his car is apt to drop Ed a complaining line. (Within ten days after such a complaint...
...Binge. Highlight of its latest issue is Civil War Correspondent (Chicago Times) Sylvanus Cadwallader's hitherto unpublished account of a two-day binge of General Grant. During the siege of Vicksburg, Cadwallader encountered Grant staggering through the barroom of a Mississippi steamboat. Wrote Cadwallader: "I . . . enticed him into his stateroom, locked myself in the room with him . . . and commenced throwing bottles of whisky . . . into the river. Grant soon ordered me out of the room, but I refused to go . . . I said to him that I was the best friend he had in the Army of the Tennessee . . ." Grant continued...