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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/24/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traffic Jam in Ohio | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bull Market in Corn | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Charlotte Evac | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

Praise the Lord. Last week at Atlanta, Sinkwich & Co. faced Alabama's Crimson Tide in the big game of the South. During its 60 minutes, everything below the Mason-Dixon line played second fiddle to the question of the hour: Can the Tide stop Sinkwich? The Tide, also undefeated and untied up to that point, was rated the third best team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Glory, Glory to Old Georgia | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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