Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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JAMES T. KENDALL State of Mississippi Department of Justice Jackson, Miss...
Last week, in the face of Congressional opposition, Franklin Roosevelt once again went to the rescue of Wyoming's mountain-hemmed Jackson Hole. Two years ago by executive order, he made Jackson Hole a national monument after Congress had refused to make it a national park. Now he firmly vetoed a bill to abolish it as a monument...
Reading & Riding. Jackson reviews five books a week in his daily Chronicle column; he also edits the Sunday book page. His reviews are calm, clear, essayish. He reads the books commuting to & from his home near the University of California campus in Berkeley, and in bed before going to sleep. (He is careful to vary his schedule of commuting trains so that acquaintances will not interrupt his reading.) Youthful-looking, smooth-featured, with clear blue eyes and invariably wrinkled clothes, he has a perpetual air of urbanity, never loses his temper or tells people stories they have heard before...
...Senate confirmation, into Cordell Hull's old black leather office crowded tittering Government clerks, a jostling mass of hardelbowed photographers, the Stettinius family-wife Virginia Wallace Stettinius, sons Edward R. III, 16, Wallace and Joseph, twins, 11-the protocol officer in striped pants, Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson in black, General George Marshall in olive drab, and Ed Stettinius in a blue business suit. The Secretary of State's desk, stacked high for twelve years with pamphlets, cables and memos, was clean...
...Justice Jackson read the oath of office and radiant, robust Ed Stettinius, hand on Bible, boomed out a baritone "So help me, God!" Then the new Secretary characteristically thrust out a friendly big hand to the Justice: "Thanks, Bob!" He turned about and kissed his wife (too quickly for the photographers; he had to do it again for them). Soon after, he held a spot press conference, where he paid Cordell Hull what must have been his 200th tribute. He told the correspondents, in effect, that from now on, boys, whatever you want is yours. This was welcome news; State...