Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andrew Jackson Higgins, colorful New Orleans boat builder (PTs and landing craft) who toils and talks at fever heat, returned from a Pacific tour to announce a two-man crusade (with Admiral Nimitz) to get American men into cooler and fewer clothes. "First thing I did after leaving Honolulu," he said, "was to take off my tie, open the top two buttons of my shirt, and chop my pants off above the knee...
...think Richard Barringer did an excellent job in ranking the U.S. Presidents in TIME [July 23]. He places Washington and Lincoln in the first class in achievement and moral stature. In the second rank he places Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson. A third category includes Jefferson, Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt...
...Supreme Court Justice Robert Houghwout Jackson, chief U.S. prosecutor of war crimes, last week's declaration was a personal victory. He had argued long & loud that a war of aggression must, per se, be considered a crime...
That familiar plague of practical internationalism-language trouble-had also contributed to the delay. Even before the Potsdam statement needled the London conference to faster action, the British, French and Russian legalists working with U.S. Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson had reached substantial agreement. The joint "master trial" (probably in the Nürnberg Court House) will be followed by thousands of local trials in each of the injured countries...
Thomas Jefferson felt that education's prime responsibility was to discover the gifted student and train him for leadership in his special field (the versatile sage of Monticello never dreamed that specialization in stenography would one day seem more desirable than Sanskrit). Andrew Jackson's philosophy, on the contrary, clearly calls for education to concentrate on raising the level of the mass...