Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will never be able to thank Nature enough for the scenic setting it has given to our beautiful city. It nestles in the grandeur of the stately hills which line the lazy Mississippi River along its upper reaches and is distinctly not on the "sweetgrass prairie," where TIME wishes to place...
...public he was only a name until he wrote one of his first Supreme Court decisions-the Panhandle Oil Co. case. His decision: the Panhandle Oil Co. need not pay a Mississippi State gas tax on sales made to the U. S. Coast Guard, because the company's part in such sales made it a "Federal instrumentality" and thus it could not be taxed...
Louis Levy was born 62 years ago in the little town of Forkland, that lies near the Mississippi border in southern Alabama. At 17 he was in Yale. In 1901 he was at Columbia Law School, where one of his classmates was a heavyset, luxury-loving youth named Martin Thomas Manton. By 1910 he was the junior partner in the firm of Stanchfield & Levy. Stanchfield was one of the powerful Democrats who labored mightily to impeach Governor William Sulzer back in 1913. Louis Levy was then a well-groomed, sharp young lawyer. In this same year he was closely questioned...
...Nashville, Tenn., 50 years ago, lived a family named Rhea. Father Rhea ran a line of river boats on the Mississippi, loved the stockmarket, had been several times rich, several times poor. The family totem pole was the Wall Street Journal. Before his son Robert was out of high school, Father Rhea gave him the Journal's difficult William Peter Hamilton editorials on the Dow Theory of stock prices, told him to master them or get spanked...
...Minneapolis, moon-faced Merle Potter, dramatic critic of the Times-Tribune, went to review Tobacco Road, came away fuming. Next morning he blasted Actor John Barton across the Mississippi for turning dirty, hungry Jeeter Lester into an "obscene clown," the theatre into a bawditorium...