Word: dawson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Veterans Hospital for Negroes at Booker T. Washington's birthplace, Franklin County, Va. Support for it was led by Dixiecrat John Rankin, who said piously that it would provide better treatment for Negroes. Opposition was led by the House's only Negro members, Democrats William L. Dawson of Illinois and Adam Clayton Powell of New York, who objected to it as segregation...
...paramour murdered in her room, Harrison runs home in a panic, burns his bloodstained suit, lies to the police and spends most of the film being badgered by a prosecutor. Harrison's wife, played appealingly by Lilli Palmer, has two grisly scenes with the actual murderer (Anthony Dawson), a beady-eyed psychopath. But Directors Anthony Bushell and Reginald Beck are so entranced with brooding, shadowy photography that most of the film appears to have been shot at the bottom of a well...
...trips ashore at Washington, father Truman telephoned her across the Atlantic). At Yorktown, Va., former artilleryman Truman went ashore for a two-mile walk at his brisk 120-pace-a-minute stride, and chided newsmen who fell behind. At night, he and his staff, including Administrative Assistant Donald Dawson (the man with the way in the old RFC), played "poverty" poker. Each man put up $100, could draw from the pool if he ran through that. Quarterdeck conversation frequently turned toward the President's favorite subject-U.S. history. Harry Truman got the biggest "yuck" out of telling...
...DAWSON: "I certainly...
...DAWSON: "Senator, I'm glad you've said what you have because it indicates to me that I have done nothing wrong...