Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only way to get anywhere in Congress is to stay there, and let seniority take its course." He grasped time's forelock just once, when he went to the Texas Legislature for the single purpose of carving a new Congressional District, an area about the size of Mississippi along the sparsely-populated U. S. bank of the Rio Grande south and west of San Antonio. He promptly got himself elected from that District in 1902 and so impressed himself upon his constituents that in 30 years he was never seriously opposed for the seat. Even when...
Jock Sutherland then refused offers of better than $13,000 yearly from Mississippi State and the Pittsburgh Pirates, announced that he would take it easy for a year. Most mentioned as his successor at Pitt was Charles W. Bowser, Pitt center and back in 1920-22. Pitt rooters hoped that after a year of the Bowman Code, Jock Sutherland would be called back to run things...
...start the ball rolling I suggest Misona, adjectival forms Misonan and Misonian. This is suggested by the Mississippi and Missouri, our two greatest rivers, and Arizona, which symbolizes our rich mountains and unique and fertile deserts. I do not doubt that better linguists than I can suggest better names...
Baiting an Administration's chief fiscal officer is no new pastime for hard-shelled, money-wise old Senator Glass. Neither is it for Mississippi's long-legged, long-nosed Pat Harrison. Together they were the most painful and damaging Democratic snipers on the flanks of the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Then their victims were shy old Andrew Mellon and Utah's mournful Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Four years of responsibility as Senate Finance Chairman during the first New Deal and a lifetime habit of party loyalty changed Pat Harrison from a sniper...
...permits package trade only, for cash not credit,* with the wet-dry option still reserved to each county. Tax: 70? the gallon on whiskey. To Boss Crump's wet Shelby County the only difference will be that thirsty Memphians need no longer drive over the Mississippi River bridge to the nearest liquor store, a big, hugely profitable emporium on the Arkansas shore...