Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captured 32 of the city's 33 wards, lacked only a hundred votes of carrying the 33rd. A Democrat, he swept Republican wards with ease. On his coattails, Democrats elected their first city council in 30 years. He was the only Democrat of stature above the Mason Dixon line to win in last week's Republican sweep...
...Georgia and made some 300 disks. As an experiment, Okeh issued Peer's recordings, listing them in a special catalogue similar to those used for foreign language and "race" records. Within a few years Okeh's hillbilly list sold over a million disks-mostly below the Mason-Dixon line. Tin Pan Alley still paid no attention...
...Evac's favorite characters: he is a non-medical Army man, Colonel Rollin L. Bauchpies of Mauch Chunk, Pa., who calls the hospital's venereal disease section "Casanova." The enlisted men of the unit are mostly New Englanders. They come in for a lot of Mason-Dixon Line ribbing...
...George Dixon, fortyish, is a Canadian-born, curly-haired, chunky Washington correspondent for the New York Daily News whose gay, lemonish journalese is often the frosting to a cardboard cake. Any Dixon story is entertaining, but readers can never be quite sure what is true and what is plain flapdoodle. Last week Dixon ran a delightful story in the News...
...George Dixon, for the umpteenth time, was telling some 4,000,000 readers a typical tarradiddle. Actually the Adams papers are owned and managed by the Adams Manuscript Trust. MacLeish negotiated for the loan of the Declaration through the Massachusetts Historical Society. It is in John Adams' hand, not Jefferson's. It was insured for $5,000, taken to Washington by Julian Boyd, Princeton University librarian, accompanied by a Library of Congress guard. There was no correspondence between MacLeish and the Adams family. There was no penny postcard, no $25 insurance-in fact, until Dixon made...