Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking of Harvey Matusow the liar, Mississippi's Senator James Eastland recently linked the man's weapon and his crime. "His mouth," said the Senator, "has been used against his country." Matusow has quite a mouth, and he was busily using it again last week to his country's detriment and the Communist Party's advantage...
...Checking up on the effectiveness of official pleas to students to "stay South" after graduation, Mississippi Southern College's Student Printz took a poll, learned that 68% of the 3,400 undergraduates planned to move away from Mississippi after graduation. What can the state do to keep its best-educated sons and daughters at home? The students' answer: Mississippi must provide "better schools, more industry, more enlightened public officials, lower taxes, and . . . legalized liquor...
...conditioned building, 32 editorial staffers (average age 32) work under Editor Norman Bradley, 42, former associate editor of the Chattanooga Times. Politically, the new daily, says Editor Bradley, is "Democratic by persuasion, independent by nature, middle-of-the-road but slightly more on the liberal side than most Mississippi papers." Its syndicated features include everyone from Right-Wing Columnist David Lawrence to Walter Lippmann, the Alsop brothers, Fair-Dealer Doris Fleeson and the Washington Post and Times Herald's Fair-Dealing Cartoonist Herblock. Since most of Jackson's leading businessmen own stock, the State Times had no trouble...
...novel are caught in a line from Moby Dick: "There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke." The setting for Melville's vast practical joke 'is a Mississippi riverboat, named Fidèle, on a run from St. Louis to New Orleans. The day is April Fool's Day. The characters are a bustling "congress of all kinds of that multiform pilgrim species, man . . . farm-hunters and fame-hunters, heiress-hunters, gold-hunters, buffalo-hunters, bee-hunters, happiness...
Last Friday, Senator Eastland, Democrat of Mississippi, asked Harlan: "Would you approve a treaty that would deprive the people of rights guaranteed them by the Constitution?" When the nominee replied that it would be "indiscreet and inappropriate" for him to reply, Eastland followed with a comparable question concerning school segregation. The implications of such interrogation are alarming. The decisions of justice, whose task it is to interpret the Constitution without prejudice, are fundamentally different from those of a legislator, whose first responsibility is to his constituents. When Senators try, then, to assure that a Federal judge's opinions will mirror...