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Word: blackshear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...last. Louisiana State University decided it can no longer afford the $10,000 a year the Review costs. Back to full-time teaching in the English department will go Review Editors Cleanth Brooks Jr. and Robert Penn Warren (Night Rider). Says L.S.U.'s prexy, Major General Campbell Blackshear Hodges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obit In Baton Rouge | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Huey Long took Louisiana State University ("The Old War Skule") from an Army man in 1928. Ousting the University's nominal president, Colonel Campbell Blackshear ("Blackie") Hodges, then West Point Commandant of Cadets, Huey installed instead a political henchman named James Monroe Smith. L. S. U. went on a fabulous binge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Restoration in Louisiana | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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