Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Knoxville to Washington came William Andrew Johnson, 79, in the charge of secret service men. No prisoner was William Andrew but an honored guest, sent for by the President who had read in the newspapers that he was a onetime slave of President Andrew Johnson and his ambition was to meet President Franklin Roosevelt. Hobbling into the White House on an old cane, he hobbled out an hour later with two canes, one of them silver-headed, inscribed "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Said William Andrew to the press: "They let me in and the President had me sit down...
...President Andrew Jackson, who resented the Court as hotly as Thomas Jefferson had and Franklin Roosevelt does, struck at the foundation of its power by urging repeal of a crucial section of the Judiciary Act of 1789. Unsuccessful, and only partly mollified as death made vacancies for Democrats, the hard-bitten old Indian fighter crystallized his view of the Supreme Court in a traditional comment on the decision which first gave Indians their legal status as government wards, "John Marshall has made his decision," Jackson roared, "Now let him enforce...
...Federalist squeeze of 1800, all changes in the Court's size up to the end of the Civil War were honestly motivated by the growth of Court business. But in 1866 a Congress bent on punishing the South cut Court membership to eight solely to keep merciful President Andrew Johnson from appointing new Justices who might help to nullify the vengeful Reconstruction Acts. Two years later, with Congress still fearful of the surviving Court, the recurrent plan to curb it by requiring a two-thirds decision against Congressional measures got past the House, but died in the Senate...
...Freeport, Me., was named for Sir Andrew Freeport. Freeports in Ohio and Kansas were named for an unremembered Freeport whence came the first settlers. How Freeport, Va. was named is unknown. Freeport, Ill. was named after First Settler William ("Tutty") Baker, who was so lavish with food and shelter to wayfarers that his wife complained: "What is this we have made of our home, a free port?" Freeport, Minn., originally called Oak Station, was renamed after Freeport, Ill. as was Freeport, Mich...
...Paducah, Ky., the Ohio flood waters rose so high in front of the Public Library that Andrew Carnegie's statue was submerged to the chin...