Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearst's Washington columnist, unpleasantly good-natured George Dixon, passed along a capital gag. It purported to explain why Harry Truman was late to a press conference: "He got up this morning a little stiff in the joints and he is having difficulty putting his foot in his mouth...
...recently defeated all of the Senator Claghorns from north of the Mason-Dixon line as well as four local potential Claghorns--peckerwoods," Bilbo snorted...
...interracial (50-50) faculty, soon boasted Negro names like Sociologist Charles S. Johnson, Librarian-Author Arna W. Bontemps (St. Louis Woman), the late Poet James Weldon Johnson. Northern Negroes, reversing the usual tide, began to go South to Fisk. (1946 enrollment: 1,034, with 48% from above the Mason-Dixon line. In 1926, all but 11% were Southern Negroes...
...Arthur Dixon...
James Henry Dixon...