Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the time Belle lived in a small house behind the Strickland Hotel in Front Royal, Va. She picked up news from Federal officers quartered in the hotel, sent her messages by Negroes to the troops under Stonewall Jackson. Whatever the value of her information, she was idolized by Confederate soldiers, feared and detested by Yankees, disdained by Southern ladies who noted in their diaries that they were not at home when she called...
...last fight over Jackson Hole has not yet been fought. As the 79th Congress convened, Wyoming's Senator Joseph O'Mahoney readied a new bill, which would abolish the Presidential right to create national monuments by executive order...
...clock that evening a man walked into a lonely, brightly lighted pumping station on the Salt River, two miles from the camp. He wore faded Army fatigue clothes, was drenched with the rain which was falling outside. As George Jackson, the lone man on duty, stared at him, he calmly announced that he was an escaped prisoner. Though he carried a 100-pound pack containing food, cigarets and other supplies, he politely asked for something to eat. He offered no resistance when Jackson reached for the telephone. At almost the same time two more Germans knocked at a farmhouse three...
...Whites had received strange packages before, during almost four of the eight years they had lived in Washington: little notes from the White House, fancy engravings from foreign embassies. Regularly every year there had been an invitation to a Jackson Day dinner, and a request with it for a $100 check for the Democratic National Committee. Last summer, there was an invitation to a party for General de Gaulle. Always before, he had ignored the invitations, but this time the liquor and cigarets and the Soviet footman stirred him to action. He soon discovered the obvious explanation: there were...
...White. He learned that Harry Dexter White is the Treasury's Director of Monetary Research, chief U.S. sparkplug at the Bretton Woods Monetary Conference where the United Nations planned a $9.1-billion world reconstruction bank. The Treasury's White, who did not mind having missed the $100 Jackson Day dinner, told Carpenter White to keep half the whiskey and the cigarets...