Word: mason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty Club may soon add itself to the waiting-list of Cambridge liquor license applicants, Mason Hammond, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, and a member of the Club's managing board, disclosed last night...
...weightiest reasons for meaning it: 1) in 1955 he suffered a heart attack more massive than Dwight Eisenhower's; 2) he can be classed as a Southerner at a time when the Democratic Party is less likely than ever before to nominate anyone from below the Mason-Dixon...
...gather in witnesses and records for public hearings on denial of voting rights to Alabama Negroes. Place and time of hearings: Montgomery, Ala., starting in early December. In a strained attempt to prove its fair-mindedness, the commission added that it was pursuing an investigation north of the Mason-Dixon line, too. Some Puerto Ricans, the commission explained, have charged that New York City's literacy test denies voting rights to citizens who cannot read and write English. By clumsily pairing New York's court-upheld, same-for-all literacy test with Alabama's discrimination against Negroes...
About five miles south of the Mason-Dixon line, the bleak, coal-mining town of Osage, W. Va. (pop. 900) promptly obeyed the Supreme Court's 1954 decision against segregated public schools. The Negroes (1958 count: 93 among 358 pupils) took their places in the nine-grade school (elementary and junior high) and became a reliable part of the basketball team. Two Negro teachers joined the 17-member faculty...
...would like to commend TIME, Oct. 27 for printing the cartoons depicting Vice President Nixon's tactics and blunders. They were so very true. MARSHA MASON St. Louis...