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...hours last week, summer heat and the instinct for direct action, which is inherent in the female mind, raised the very old Ned with telephone service in Gulfport (pop. 22,659), Miss. When the temperature in the telephone company's big switchboard room got to 92°, the 69 young ladies on duty all got up and indignantly walked out. B. D. Northcutt, president of the local telephone union, who is negotiating with the company for air conditioning, hurried over and asked them to go back to work. They told him, in effect, to go jump in the river...
RICHARD CLOWDEN Gulfport, Miss...
...Orleans, another group was in trouble for gun-collecting if not for gunrunning. Two men named William Marsalis and George Rappleyea had a hole-in-the-wall office in New Orleans, a houseful of guns in Gulfport, Miss., plus two landing ships, four P-38s and four tanks. They insisted that they were interested only in opening up the mahogany wilderness of British Honduras...
...Gulfport, Miss...
...fishing trip. One morning Franklin Roosevelt, 27 hours out of Washington, detrained at Biloxi, Miss, accompanied by his trusty supporter, Senator Pat ("The Fox") Harrison. With Governor Hugh White of Mississippi they drove to Jefferson Davis' onetime estate (now a home for Confederate veterans) and on to Gulfport, home of Senator Harrison. There the President was joined by his son Elliott and Governor Richard Webster Leche (pronounced lesh) of Louisiana and entrained, beginning the significant part of his journey...