Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England tour will bring the total of states visited by Ike as President and presidential nominee to 47. The one unvisited state: Mississippi...
...pressed on upriver expecting to find Oriental gold and spices. They never reached China, but the voyageurs, fur traders and missionaries who came after them canoed up the river and its tributaries into lands that were to prove far richer than fabled Cathay. The river led them to the Mississippi Valley, the Great Plains and the fur, mineral and timber country of Northern Ontario and Quebec. Their camp sites, trading posts and missions are today's cities and towns...
...Mississippi Squire William Faulkner, who lets neither his 1949 Nobel Prize nor his current Pulitzer Prize (for A Fable) shatter his belief that he is just a simple agrarian with a literary bent, confided to a Manhattan interviewer that he long since missed his true calling. Said he wistfully: "I was born to be a tramp. I was happiest when I had nothing. I had a trench coat then with big pockets. It would carry a pair of socks, a condensed Shakespeare and a bottle of whisky. Then I was happy and I wanted nothing and I had no responsibility...
...South: desegregation of the public schools. But Editor Carter is finding the middle ground an even hotter place to stand than the extremes. Last week in an editorial, Carter blasted visiting Michigan Democratic Congressman Charles C. Diggs, who told an all-Negro audience that "the hour in Mississippi is two minutes to midnight" for complete desegregation of the schools. Wrote Carter: "This is precisely the kind of inflammatory approach to interracial adjustments that this newspaper has been opposing for years. Whatever the source, it is virtually an invitation to battle...
...Mississippi, Georgia, and Louisiana, voters have adopted resolutions which would allow their states to sponsor "private school systems" which might escape court jurisdiction. Artistic gerrymandering can define districts so cleverly that not a single Negro will live in most white school zones. The Schools Commissioner of Memphis could proudly tell worried citizens, after the momentous Court segregation decision a year ago, that the problem of integration is "all taken care of in Memphis"--by a gigantic gerrymander, of course...