Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JACKSON-Arthur Schlesinger Jr.-Little, Brown...
...Truman Administration had drawn together proposals which bore the symbol "H.R. 4280" and the name of irascible Representative Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. May's group and a special Senate committee held hearings, got advice from scientists so strongly worded and with such a weight of learning behind it that something like the May bill seemed sure to pass...
...Hickory got so mad he roared: "My name is Andrew Jackson, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with snapping turtle. I can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride a streak of lightning, slip without a scratch down the honey locust, whip my weight in wildcats, hug a bear too close for comfort and eat anybody opposed to the COMMON MAN! Come on, boys, let's get Nicholas Biddle...
Energetic Embryo. So runs the Jackson legend. Now Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., son of the professor of American History at Harvard University, in a brilliant justification of the New Deal disguised as a history of the age of Jackson, says that the legend and the facts do not jibe at all. In 577 pages, he implies that the "Jacksonian Revolution," which finally drove the Federalists out, and brought entirely new social forces into political power in the U.S., was just the Roosevelt revolution in embryo. The social forces that broke the Federalists and the power of the "mercantile classes...
...forwards can keep the hard-charging Sub Base line from breaking through. The lineups: Harvard Sub Base DiLuzio, le le, Simonian Fisher, lt lt, Grotbus LeBart, lg lg, Tallant Faber, c c, Manning Allen, rg rg, Tate Foster, rt rt, Loepfe Champion, re re, Olson Tennant, qb qb, Hodges Jackson, lhb lhb, Jones Flynn, rhb rhb, Charouhus Cowen, fb fb, Moravee