Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clouds hung low and heavy over the barnlike white (and for whites only) schoolhouse at Barnes, in Mississippi's rural Leake County. To the Barnes school-house one recent, showery, steaming day came four lawyers and an editor, all candidates for the nomination for governor on the Democratic ticket (the only one that counts) in next week's primary. In their speeches the five candidates all went straight to the point. This was no great accomplishment, since in Mississippi, in 1955, there is only one real political point: school segregation...
Then came Lawyer Ross Barnett, a native of Standing Pine. "I cannot serve as governor," cried Barnett, "without the help of Almighty God and the confidence and support of the people of Mississippi. Humility before God and my fellow man is my guide. Segregation is the most serious problem which confronts the people of Mississippi. It is the darkest cloud which has been over us since Reconstruction . . . We shall maintain segregation ... so long as I am governor...
...JACKSON DAILY NEWS, Mississippi's second largest daily...
...does not fear this competition; he thrives on it. Trim (5 ft. 10 in., 164 lbs.), greying, hard as an oaken keg at 56, Gussief Busch operates on a simple formula: "Work hard-love your work." Whether at his baronial suburban home or his main brewery sprawling alongside the Mississippi River in South St. Louis, he spends most of his waking hours selling beer. He rarely talks in a normal voice; he sounds more like a hoarse lion. On his way to appointments, he lopes in a half-walk, half-trot, arms pumping like a sprinter, while he bellows orders...
Henry B. Sargent, 50, a veteran utilities executive, was named president of American & Foreign Power, Inc., replacing W. S. Robertson who becomes board chairman. After graduating from Tulane in 1927, Sargent went to Mississippi Power & Light as an engineer, stayed on to become vice president and general manager, then moved over in 1946 to Arizona Public Service where he has been serving as president. His new company, Foreign Power, a subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share, does not operate in the U.S. but provides eleven Latin American countries with their utilities...