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Word: cramerton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Massachusetts' Tenth Congressional District (Boston), active campaigner against votes for women and Prohibition (during which he kept one of the best cellars in Washington) who battled cheerfully and energetically against Roosevelt, child-labor reform, the British, labor unions, segregation, the Russians, the Methodists and Willkie Republicans; at Cramerton, N.C. A Mayflower descendant and isolationist Republican, George Tinkham's popularity in his normally Democratic district was so great that he never bothered to campaign, went big-game hunting instead, named his more repulsive trophies for F.D.R., Cordell Hull, other antagonists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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