Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sixteen million of the 30 million nonvoters lived south of the Mason-Dixon Line-18% of them whites who could afford to pay the poll...
...Army had been criticized for quartering Negro troops below the Mason & Dixon Line and the Army had a simple reason: it needed year-round open weather for training. But the results were not simple...
...Even Dixie's most ardent New Dealers are tired of Yankee advice on the Negro problem, the poll tax and States' rights. Southern delegates will go to the Democratic convention in Chicago next month with a list of minimum demands: i) less Washington meddling below the Mason-Dixon line; 2) a Southern Vice President-or any Vice President but Henry Wallace; 3) a re-turn to the two-thirds rule, under which Southerners for many decades exercised an absolute veto power on the convention's choice of presidential candidates. Unless these demands are listened to with respect...
Time to Re-Tire. A Dixon, Calif. newspaper ran a want ad: "Owner of a truck would like to correspond with a widow who owns two tires. Object matrimony. Send picture of tires...
...social equivalent of the nasty little hairdressers' assistants and boys from schools 'near Eton' and so forth who 'want Mosley' in England. . . . He suffered from sexual anxiety and a sense of impotence and race jealousy, a feeling very common below the Mason and Dixon Line in America...