Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Associated Press, surveying the Thanksgiving Day situation, reported the following score: 22 States for Franklin Roosevelt and Nov. 23; 23 (including all New England) for tradition and the last Thursday in November. Mississippi is undecided ; both Thursdays will be observed in Texas and Colorado...
Mark Twain once took the trouble to dig out and proclaim at length (in Life on the Mississippi) some comparative figures on America's age. Without whooping it up as Mark did, Historians Commager & Nevins are equally concerned to demonstrate the long, rich past which Americans seldom realize. Collected in this book are about 1,130 pages of documents, from the Journal of Christopher Columbus to Charles Lindbergh's We, which make up a history told by the historical. Samples...
...Harry Byrd of Virginia stood together with Young Turks Minton of Indiana, Schwellenbach of Washington; the Old South's Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina was ready to vote with the New South's Pepper of Florida. For the first time in many moons and many matters, Mississippi's Harrison and Bilbo, Utah's King and Thomas, were together. For in Washington this week were no pettifogging politicos seeking sewer projects. Every man was a Statesman...
...British Army, marriage with one U. S. heiress and three foiled elopements with another (the fourth succeeded), World War decoration by England, France and Canada, extradition in 1923 to India to stand trial for an $18,000 jewelry fraud (later acquitted), eventual domestication with a third wife in Mississippi...
...represented, had caused Franklin Roosevelt to change his mood and tactics. Suddenly honey-sweet to the press he had often lambasted, Franklin Roosevelt now turned his full charm on his opponents: solicitously he consulted Republican leaders about a special session; then on the dissident Democrats. Twice he called the Mississippi fox, Pat Harrison, by long-distance telephone. He condoled Georgia's Walter George on an eye-operation (13 months ago he strove to end George's career). He appointed James Elliott Heath (a close crony of Virginia's Carter Glass for 30 years) as Norfolk customs collector...