Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant and the Fellows of the College received a Gutenberg Bible dating from about 1455 yesterday in a ceremony in the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room of Widener Library. The Bible was presented by George D. Widener of Philadelphia on behalf of his sister, Mrs. Widener Dixon of Philadelphia and himself...
...preacher filed as a candidate for the Dallas County school board. His alarmed white opponents used paid newspaper ads : "Vote the white ticket straight." In South Carolina, a Negro Citizens Committee raised more than $300,000 to fight for their voting rights in court. Every where below the Mason-Dixon line, Negroes were demanding their political rights, or were beginning to think seriously about their rights...
Representative Hamilton Fish of New York's Dutchess, Orange and Putnam Counties was jubilantly pessimistic about the chances of his most famed constituent, predicted: ". . . Roosevelt . . . will not carry a single state north of the Mason-Dixon line...
...committee of the Civil Liberties Union, after being shown a disturbing passage: "That stinks." Nevertheless, the Civil Liberties Union opposes the ban. Said Harvard Professor Francis Otto Matthiessen (American Renaissance): "It should be required reading in every deanery, every parsonage, and every Legislature, on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line...
...should be required reading in every deanery, every parsonage, and every Legislature, on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line." Consequently the suppression of the book in Boston, the one-time center of Abolitionist principles, appears utterly incongruous. The book is the opposite of sensational. It is a sober sociological study by a woman who has lived nearly all her life in the deep South, and who brings to the examination of race relationships no exaggerated or violent denunciation, but qualities of deep understanding and tragic pity...