Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second switch of site for the association in the past four months. Originally, the convention was scheduled for Mississippi. But Georgia's Attorney General Eugene Cook, president of the association, refused to invite U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell because of the Administration's stand against school segregation. So the Camelback was booked...
...press conference, the President related that he had asked the TVA expansion advocates, "Well, now, are you ready to support this kind of development for the Upper Mississippi?" They just looked at him and said, "That is outside the question." But it wasn't outside the question to him, said Ike. Nothing in the Dixon-Yates contract could raise by a single cent the prices that TVA charges its customers, the President added, so if there is anything political in it, someone is making it that...
...noticed in the Dixon-Yates political battle are the two public utility executives whose names it bears. Who is Dixon, and who Yates? Edgar H. Dixon, 49, president of Middle South Utilities, Inc., and Eugene Adams Yates, 74, chairman of The Southern Co., joined forces to set up the Mississippi Valley Generating Co. (Dixon, president) which will operate the new West Memphis plant. Both men were born in New Jersey; both are Episcopalians, Republicans, members of Washington's Metropolitan Club, directors of several Southern power companies and amateur gardeners...
...conspirator, rose to object to any McCarthy "defense which makes its point by attacking either the intelligence or the sincere intentions of the committee." Although the Democratic strategy was to keep quiet and enjoy a Republican v. Republican fight, one of the week's strongest speeches came from Mississippi's Democratic Senator John Stennis, a former judge and a highly respected member of the Watkins Committee...
...good morals" to the majority of Senate members may be highly inflammatory to the public. A censure motion against William Langer of North Dakota for obstructing Senate business and a move to refuse seating to the vituperative Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi were both doomed to failure. The Republicans who insisted that Bilbo not be seated violated an old Senate tradition: that Senators whose credentials are in question be allowed to take their seats, pending a report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections. In Bilbo's case the unprecedented tactics were necessary because Southern Democrats who opposed Bilbo...