Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Georgia Neese Clark, 52, Richland, Kans. banker and outgoing Democratic Treasurer of the U.S. (she was the first woman Treasurer, and her signature appears on all U.S. folding money printed since mid-1949); and Andrew J. Gray, 40, Washington public-relations counsel and onetime Boston Post reporter; she for the second time, he for the first; in Alexandria...
...near the end of his second term, old President Andrew Jackson walked across the street from the White House, struck the earth with his walking stick and said: "Right here is where I want the cornerstone." Then & there it was laid, and around it was built the columned granite pile of the U.S. Treasury Department...
...Treasury come to lose prestige in a generation when it handled more money than Andrew Jackson-or Theodore Roosevelt-could have conceived of? One significant answer: a government that accepts private business as the mainspring of the economy can use the Treasury as a regulator, but a government that considers itself the economic mainspring will put its economic power in the hands of the planners and managers. The passage of the Government's fiscal power from the Treasury to Harry Hopkins of WPA and Harold Ickes of PWA symbolized a whole new philosophy of the relation of government...
Curb Service. In Chicago, Detective Andrew Stryzinski rushed into a drugstore to check a robbery report, was promptly disarmed and laid low by three crooks, who departed with...
Almost equally memorable was the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln and Vice President Andrew Johnson in 1865. Johnson had just got through an attack of typhoid fever and, though a light drinker, he fortified himself with some brandy, chased by several slugs of whisky. When his turn came to take the oath, he stood up, weaving slightly, and made an unscheduled but extremely fiery speech ("Humble as I am, plebeian as I may be deemed, permit me in the presence of this brilliant assemblage . . ."). "Senators on the Republican side." reported the New York World, "began to hide their heads." Notables tugged...