Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business now was appointment of a new Chief Justice. Who would it be? Newsmen learned this much: the job would go to a man on the Court. Speculation narrowed to Robert H. Jackson and William 0. Douglas, with a few wiseacres betting on Hugo Black. To fill the vacancy left on the Court, Secretary of War Robert Patterson appeared the likeliest choice. Early this week the President invited venerable Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice, to help him decide...
...field events, the discus throw was taken by Jackson with a toss of 172 feet 6 3/4 inches. Pete Garland of the Crimson was second with 123:1, Lauro of Rhode Island third with 120:1 and Willo Fisher fourth with a heave...
...feet 4 1/2 inches gave Jackson his second first in the shot put. Garland took second, Lauro third, and Sicuranza o Holy Cross fourth. Horrigan of Harvard, Garland, and Kelly of Holy Cross ended up in a triple tie for the top in the high jump with 5 feet 10 inches. Benesch took one point with a jump of 5 feet 6 inches...
...Comrade Trotsky never finished explaining what "the idea had." For at that point in history, ideas, to which Trotsky was dedicated, were shattered forever by the force which Stalin epitomized. Before Trotsky could complete his sentence, Jackson's pickax had written finis to "the grand polemic" and the grander polemicist...
...Jackson, whose real name, according to the Mexican police, is Jacques van den Dreschd (he is a Belgian traveling on false Canadian papers), is still in a Mexico City jail. A month ago, Manhattan's socialist New Leader reported that the FBI, at the request of the Mexican Government, was working on his case. Jackson had committed an assassin's No. 1 crime: he had failed to escape. Said the New Leader: the Mexican police have discovered that the NKVD is now trying to liquidate Jackson; the operation is in charge of a little-publicized U.S. woman Communist...