Word: yazoo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dismissed in West Virginia for shooting into an automobile. Before that there was an outcry from Canadians who complained that U. S. rum guards had fired across the boundary line at Detroit. Near Fresno, Calif., one Frank Aiello was lately shot dead for not stopping. In Yazoo County, Miss., Federal bullets whacked into a back seat occupied by a woman and her two children...
...biggest pair of shoes that ever walked out of Mississippi" belonged, according to Senator Pat Harrison of that State, to John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator, who now dozes in gardenia-scented retirement on his plantation near Yazoo City, Miss. To fill the Williams shoes, Mississippi sent to Washington Hubert Durett Stephens, a man who was considered brilliant as a youth because he started practicing law at the tender age of 20, but who has yet to distinguish himself either as a shoe-filler or as a Senator...
...bestow it properly upon the U. S., Governor Dennis Murphree did not rely on his own eloquence but turned to pungent, quizzical onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator John Sharp Williams, who went to Vicksburg for the occasion from his retirement on his gardenia-fragrant plantation, "Cedar Grove," near Yazoo City, Miss...