URGENT antedating needed: "the race card" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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DAVID NYHAN\ AN AGE VS. YOUTH TEST
Boston Globe - July 22, 1982
Author: DAVID NYHAN [Op-ED section, page # unknown, from Newsbank
"America's Newspapers" database]

"This year Stennis voted for the Voting Rights Bill for the first time
in his career. Though he's been a traditional foe of civil rights laws
for nearly four decades, he never played the race card like Jim
Eastland, his fellow senator who retired after 36 years in the Senate. "


[letter to editor] "Huey Long Revisited " by HARRY LAZER   _The
Washington Post_  Washington, D.C.: Jan 13, 1989
p A20, col 5 [proquest historical newspapers]

[about Huey Long]
"But he cannot be accused  of playing the race card or yelling "nigger."
"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Laurence Horn
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 2:42 PM
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> Subject: Re: URGENT antedating needed: "the race card"
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> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: URGENT antedating needed:  "the race card"
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> At 3:34 PM -0400 8/1/08, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >A N. Y. Times reporter (not connected with Safire's column!) needs
> >urgently to know what the history/origin of "the race card"
> is, for a
> >piece he's writing in this Sunday's Week in Review.  I will seek to
> >make sure whoever has something for him will be credited.
> Let's make
> >sure his work on this is as accurate as it can be given the time
> >pressure.
> >
> >LH
> >
> P.S.  two more points:
>
>   (i)  If it's not obvious from the context, he's interested
> in the current political use (as in "play[ing] ___ [from the
> bottom of the deck]"), not the equine competition sense cited
> in the OED.
>
> (ii)  He needs the info by tonight.
>
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