Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belize was founded by British pirates. The name Belize was unaccountably derived by Spaniards from the name of the Scottish Settler Wallis. Legend relates that the city was built in a swamp on a foundation of gin pots and mahogany chips. If this is so, it would have been better if the city's fathers had thrown in a few more pots and chips, for Belize is only a few inches above sealevel. Out of this circumstance came the second and far more horrible tragedy...
...chubby-faced Governor-elect Conner is more than a windy swamp politician. Born near Hattiesburg 40 years ago, he was educated at the University of Mississippi, graduated from the Yale Law School at 22. He married his boyhood sweetheart, Alma Graham, now has one daughter. At 23 he was elected to the State House of Representatives and, with the aid of Governor Bilbo during a previous term, elevated to the Speakership where he served eight years. Later he and Governor Bilbo quarreled politically, which accounts for the skeleton. Off the stump Mr. Conner is a good-natured, well...
...trees. Governor Bilbo pondered these facts, and others, wrote a speech in which he forecast Mississippi's future, told why it got in such a bad hole. Later in the week he set forth on a typical Bilboan barnstorming trip through the State's swamp towns and back-country villages. State law barred him from re-election but he was bent on picking his own successor...
...turn its prisoners out of jail, free its insane. Its air reeked with hidden scandal. Between Governor Bilbo and the Legislature existed a spectacular deadlock to dim the chances of quick political relief. Born in Juniper Grove 53 years ago, a fluent lawyer-politician idolized by Mississippi's swamp folk, Governor Bilbo served his State as Lieutenant Governor (1912-16) and Governor (1916-20). He was elected again in 1928. With a son at West Point, he likes to compare himself to Napoleon. But what he fears most is a Waterloo at the hands of the Mississippi Legislature. When...
...owner of an apartment house in The Bronx last week wrote to the Department of Sanitation complaining of "conditions that exist on the side and rear of my house. ... It is ... a body of water commonly known as a swamp." He said that in the swamp subsisted "a large school of frogs. . . . The sound they make . . . is the most annoying thing I have ever heard. The few remaining tenants . . . threatened to move unless something is done about...