Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago last week the shoe was on the other foot: the Jackson Park Hospital refused to admit a patient of an A.M.A. doctor who had been a member of the staff for 17 years. The patient, one Toyoko Murayama, though born in the U.S., was of Japanese blood. Explained Superintendent Lucius W. Hilton: "Some of our patients might object to such close bed contact to a Japanese. . . . This is a private hospital and we have absolute power over who we take...
...attached in the U.S. to the term "best-seller." "What's wrong with writing a book that lots of people buy?" she demands. "My God, there's no point in writing if you don't sell your stuff." Of current writers, she most admires Charles Jackson for The Lost Weekend...
Justice Robert H. Jackson concurred with the majority decision. But in his agreement, he took occasion to write words of cheer for businessmen. Employers, he said in effect, have not been getting their rights to free speech under labor's Magna Carta-the Wagner Act. Said Jackson: "I must admit that in overriding the findings of the Texas court we are applying to Thomas a rule the benefit of which in all its breadth and vigor this court denies to employers in NLRB cases. . . . However, the remedy is not to allow Texas improperly to deny the right of free...
Businessmen, looking forward to the next employer appeal from an adverse NLRB ruling, hoped that at least four of Justice Jackson's colleagues would agree...
...Great Day. On May 23, 1862, Belle became famous. The Confederates under Jackson and Ewell were advancing on Front Royal. The Federals were planning to retreat to Winchester, after burning their stores. They were scattered in seven small groups. Belle was in the Strickland Hotel in the morning when she heard the first Confederate rifleshot. As she rushed upstairs she met a newspaper reporter coming down. This was a Mr. A. W. Clarke, of the New York Herald, who had been trying for some time to do what is described in books like this as "force his attentions upon...