Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history of U.S. drama, Colonel Nimrod Wildfire of Kentucky occupies a special place. He claimed to be "half horse, half alligator [and] a touch of the airth-quake." He had "the prettiest sister, fastest horse, and ugliest dog in the deestrict." He could "tote a steam boat up the Mississippi and over the Alleghany mountains." His father could "whip the best man in old Kaintuck, and I can whip my father." All in all, the colonel was a wow back in the 1830s-the literary prototype of the tall-talking frontiersman, the first introduction to the stage of native Western...
MICKEY MOUSE first hove into public sight at the wheel of a steamboat rushing round a bend of what appeared to be the Mississippi River. As he swung in for a landing, Mickey tootled a tune-oom-pah-pah, with a tweet now and then-on his signal-whistles,which suddenly had faces that scrooged up as they blew. In the next release, our hero for the first foolish time met Minnie, a mousy young lady who looked as much like Mary Pickford as a rodent could. And all at once, for no apparent reason, there was Pegleg Pete...
...last week the white Citizens Councils that began last summer in Mississippi had spread to at least four Alabama counties. Their purpose, said Lawyer Alston Keith, chairman of the council in Alabama's Dallas County, is "to make it difficult, if not impossible, for any Negro who advocates desegregation to find and hold a job, get credit or renew a mortgage." So far, the council's bark has been worse than its bite, but the bite is taking effect. Examples...
...President Edgar H. Dixon of Middle South Utilities Inc. furnished the financing details of the $105 million project. The new company (official name: Mississippi Valley Generating Co.) expects to sell 79% of a $5.500.000 common stock issue to Middle South Utilities Inc., 21% to Southern Co., headed by Eugene A. Yates. The remaining $99,915,000 (95% of the plant's cost) would be borrowed in banknotes and bonds.*As for profits, said Dixon, the combine would collect a return of 8.98% on its $5,500,000 risk capital if construction costs are in line with...
...closest thing to forceful opposition comes from the editor of the Mississippi State College newspaper. In certain counties, the paper points out, where the ratio of students is eight Negroes to one white, it will be many years before integration is even feasible. The paper therefore supports an amendment to the State constitution allowing the abolition of public schools. The paper also says that "countless other devices can be called into legal use" to prevent mixing the races, including "the use of military and police power." Some students are extreme, says the paper, while others "stand in a quagmire...