Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican confusion came at a moment of surpassing Democratic unity behind the best vote getter they have seen in years: Cleveland's Mayor Frank John Lausche (rhymes with How Shay), 48, the only major Democrat above the Mason-Dixon line to win in the nationwide Republican sweep last fall (TIME, Nov. 15, 1943). Lausche is liked both by labor and by old-line conservatives. Exuberant Democrats even believe he may carry Ohio for Franklin Roosevelt in 1944, if Republicans are off fighting among themselves...
This meeting is the first forum held since January 20, when R. Dixon Speas, Assistant Vice-President of American Air] lines, and John R. Markham, M. I. T. professor of aeronautical engineering and Massachusetts State Commissioner of Airports discussed international and domestic aspects of post-war aviation...
...Dixon Speas, Assistant Vice-President of the American Airlines, who has just returned from a special assignment with the Army, will speak. John R. Markham, M. I. T. professor of Aeronautical Engineering and Massachusetts State Commissioner of Airports, will replace Otto C. Koppen, originally scheduled as the other speakers. They will discuss international and domestic aspects of post-war aviation, the political and economic importance of aviation, the problems of reconversion of aircraft industries...
...John Dixon, Negro tenor, will also entertain at the same meeting by singing "Eili-cili." "Dark Eyes," and "Ole Man River...
Summed up the New York Daily News's rollicking George Dixon: from some witnesses' testimony it appears "that nearly every amusement in life, except possibly lynching, [is] vulgar, obscene and corrupting...