Word: mason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government. The cleanup of known Fascists, at first very slow, had been speeded up (total ousted to date: 820). The AMG in Italy, largely staffed by British and U.S. businessmen with no nose for Fascists, had been absorbed by the better-run Allied Control Commission under British Lieut. General Mason-Macfarlane. In particular, an Italian-American from New York had brought to bear a great deal of political savvy, a great ability to personify democracy to Italians who had never seen it in action. This paragon is Lieut. Colonel Charles Poletti, ex-Governor and Lieutenant Governor of New York, Regional...
...Baptist preacher filed as a candidate for the Dallas County school board. His alarmed white opponents used paid newspaper ads : "Vote the white ticket straight." In South Carolina, a Negro Citizens Committee raised more than $300,000 to fight for their voting rights in court. Every where below the Mason-Dixon line, Negroes were demanding their political rights, or were beginning to think seriously about their rights...
Representative Hamilton Fish of New York's Dutchess, Orange and Putnam Counties was jubilantly pessimistic about the chances of his most famed constituent, predicted: ". . . Roosevelt . . . will not carry a single state north of the Mason-Dixon line...
...advisory committee of the Civil Liberties Union, after being shown a disturbing passage: "That stinks." Nevertheless, the Civil Liberties Union opposes the ban. Said Harvard Professor Francis Otto Matthiessen (American Renaissance): "It should be required reading in every deanery, every parsonage, and every Legislature, on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line...
Author Hecht begins by explaining that, as a boy (he was raised in New York City and Racine, Wis.), he didn't know that anti-Semitism existed. His Russian-Jewish father was a passionately Americanized Elk, Knight of Pythias, Mason, Modern Woodsman and Loyal Moose. Later he met Jewish writers. But, like himself, they were "Semites far away from Semitism . . . whose only synagogue was Broadway." When he became famous, Ben was outraged if friends mentioned antiSemitism. "I said that it was not Jews who were being discriminated against but obviously individuals too ill-favored for social appeal." Ben filled...