Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convention facilities, the Republican Governor's pitch proved persuasive. Last week the G.O.P. committee voted, 95 to 52, to hold its July 1980 national convention in Detroit, despite the sniping of a few Southerners who opposed meeting in a Northern city that is heavily black and Democratic. Mississippi G.O.P. Committeeman Clarke Reed commented sarcastically that he was the only white Mississippian ever to visit Detroit, "and I don't want to be the only white man from Mississippi who has been to Detroit twice." Mayor To less Coleman biased Young, who Southern is black, Republicans, tartly Young replied...
...hospitality promised to be lavish, as Washington, Atlanta, Houston and Seattle geared up to entertain Teng. Other locales were considered and rejected, largely because of the potential for bad weather: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Des Moines, Kansas City and Cincinnati, as well as cities in Kentucky, North Carolina, Mississippi and Tennessee. Said one scheduler: "We wanted diversity and national representation. But we also wanted to be able to get him in and out of places...
...town by harassment and death threats, he returned to the South in 1964 as the director of the American Civil Liberties Union Southern Region. He sued for integrated prisons and juries, legislative reapportionment and voting rights, and defended the likes of Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond and Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Aaron Henry...
...plan B." Long decided to increase the size of his Finance Committee by adding another Democrat and Republican. But that meant reducing the size of somebody else's committee, a treacherous undertaking amid a group that so jealously guards its prerogatives. But Long had a friend in Mississippi's John Stennis, chairman of the Armed Services Committee. Sure, said Stennis. He was willing to drop a couple of members. "It's a small reduction," he acknowledged. Long then approached Byrd, who convened a hasty meeting of the Steering Committee. Boren landed a place on Finance as well...
...They believe that the largely unpolluted Tombigbee will be turned into a series of small stagnant pools. Some 45,000 acres, rich with wildlife, fossils and Indian relics, will be inundated. Randall Grace, former executive director of the Tombigbee River Conservation Council, asserts that the project will "transform northeastern Mississippi into a huge garbage dump. The promoters say that it will turn the region into the Ruhr Valley of the South, without realizing how polluted the Ruhr...