Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Jackson Day dinner since 1944 turned out to be Harry Truman's kind of party. Though Washington's Mayflower Hotel had put out its best napery, the affair had the informality of a barbecue. Fortified with bourbon, 1,800 Democrats uncomplainingly ate the 700-calorie "austerity dinner" (tomato soup, baked chicken, potatoes, salad and one oatmeal cookie) for which they had paid $400 apiece. They whistled, whooped and slapped backs. Soprano Grace Moore rose with a flash of jewels, and sang a hillbilly song. Leon Henderson gave her a cigar...
Those who will be available from last year's team are Bill McDaniel at end, Chet Pierce and John Coan at tackle, Ned Dewey and Frank LeBart at guard, and Pete Harwood, Chuck Roach, Bill Jackson, Tom Tennant, Ken O'Donnell, Leo Flynn, and Bill Meilke in the backfield...
Many shared with their colleagues of the prosecution a feeling for the trial's grave historic impact. Said Hess's lawyer Dr. Alfred Seidl: "This is as new to me as it is to [Chief U.S. Prosecutor] Jackson. We are all groping in the dark. . . . We are just going to have to go through with this if we are going to prevent a third war." Said another, more intent on the immediate objective of saving 22 Nazi lives: "If Jackson was able to make new laws, the same should hold true...
Their inquiry was begun ten years ago by Dr. Bittner at the Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Me. There Dr. Bittner discovered that a cancerous agent, which he called a milk factor, could be transmitted by cancerous mothers to young mice in nursing. Dr. Bittner now believes that the milk factor is a virus, fitting a virus' classic descriptions: 1) it grows only in living cells; 2) it is too small to be seen through a microscope; 3) when it is injected into animal tissues, immune agents are formed by the combination...
Shipbuilder Andrew Jackson Higgins Sr. had hoped to let the public in on what he considered a good thing; he wanted to sell it $9,900,000 in stock in his new company. Last week, the Securities & Exchange Commission tripped up fast-moving Mr. Higgins. SEC found that Manhattan's Van Alstyne Noel & Co. (TIME, Feb. 18), which was to get $90,000 for handling 100,000 shares of the issue, had sold stock before the registration statement had been approved by SEC. Actually, said SEC, stock was sold before the statement was even filed...