Word: mason
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only for a moment, however, did Governor Earle leave his hearers in doubt about his imaginary line. "From my present home," he said, "it is only an hour's drive to the Mason-Dixon line. From my birthplace in Chester County, it is even closer. . . . Whether I am north of it, in my home, or south of it on my farm in Cambridge, Md., I find men and women occupied with similar problems...
Thereafter he had only the kindest words to say of that section of the U. S. which reveres both the Mason-Dixon and the color lines: "Was it not the Solid South, bulwark and Gibraltar of Democracy, that gave us Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the U. S.?* I need not tell you how that solid, united support of the South saved our Nation from destruction. . . . It was a Virginian, George Washington. . . . It was another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson. . . . It was Old Hickory Jackson, from Tennessee. . . . We need, above all else, peace. . . . Our great Secretary of State, Cordell Hull...
...speech there could be no doubt that Governor Earle had undertaken a great feat, never before performed by man: having made a political crossing of the color line, to make a political crossing of the Mason-Dixon...
...Case of the Stuttering Bishop (First National): heiresses, true and false, wittily entangled by Donald Woods (as Sleuth Perry Mason) and his efficient secretary Ann Dvorak...
George L. Haskins '35, Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Mason Hammond '25, assistant professor of History and of Greek and Latin, and David W. Prall, associate professor of Philosophy, comprised the committee which made the award, fourth of its kind...