Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once, in the midst of his crowded week, the President took time to fulfill a routine political obligation. He wrote to James M. Pendergast, of Kansas City: "Dear Jim, I am enclosing a check for $6 in payment of my Jackson Democratic Club dues. I hope the outfit is still going good. Sincerely yours-Harry...
...field events went to the Crimson men. Jackson tossed the shot 51 feet 6 inches. Harrigan went 5 feet 9 inches into the air for the high jump, and teammate Holbrook broad jumped a winning 20 feet 7 inches...
Born. To Deanna Durbin, 23, thrush from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who flew to Hollywood stardom on wings of song; and Felix Jackson, 43, producer who helped guide her flight: their first child, a daughter. Name: Jessica Louise. Weight...
Three months ago, Shipbuilder Andrew Jackson Higgins Sr. loudly announced that he was going out of business because of union trouble. But he took a strange way of doing it. While he started to liquidate his Higgins Industries, Inc., owned chiefly by himself and family, he planned to form a new company, Higgins, Inc., financed by a public sale of stock...
Author Bill's Richmond swarms with society belles, refugees from the overrun plantations, speculators, spies, politicians, soldiers, officers, the dead, the dying. Here is the young Stonewall Jackson, speaking in a high, piping voice. Here is Cavalry General Stuart, mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, brought to Richmond to die in a city too poor and gloomy to pay him the proper last respects. Here is Raphael Semmes, dashing captain of the Alabama (which was sunk by the Kearsarge in one of the war's great naval fights), who for a few days raised Richmond's flagging spirits...