Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to elaborate. He and Alabama's ex-Governor Frank Dixon, vociferous champion of States' rights and white supremacy, had joined for months in urging the South to secede from the New Deal and form a "Southern Democratic Party...
Last week the New York Daily News's George Dixon discovered that Butch LaGuardia, now 60, would also bounce his 175-lb. around in World War II. The President was ready to sign an order commissioning him as a brigadier general. Wrote Reporter Dixon: "The order suggests that Army doctors blink at whatever spavins, heaves, or horsecollar sores the wild Mayor may have and pass him if he is able to stand on his feet...
...Andrew Jackson, the great American roughneck, looked down on a scene that would have delighted his old frontiersman's eyes. Assembled there was the Southeastern Governors' Conference. Ostensible subject: the South's perennial freight-rate problem. Actual subject: the political rebellion seething below the Mason Dixon line...
...York University, which claims to be the world's largest,* is not a colossus in sport. But year in & out N.Y.U. has consistently produced great track athletes. Most extraordinary has been its succession of superb milers: Frank Nordeil, Leslie MacMitchell and this season's freshman sensation, Frank Dixon. The greatest miler of them all, Glenn Cunningham, did his best running when he was a Ph.D. student at N.Y.U...
...Elling had just capped his best year. His N.Y.U. team walked away with the Indoor Intercollegiates and captured the National A.A.U. championship, the first time a college team had turned the trick. Of the year's six outstanding track men, two-Dixon and Shotput Champion Bernie Mayer-were Von Elling's boys...