Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic sweep was such that Franklin Roosevelt had but a few lame ducks: Senators Guy Gillette of Iowa, Sam Jackson of Indiana and most notable of all, Henry Wallace. All the U.S. would watch to see what kind of job Mr. Wallace gets...
...farm, then rose to prominence in politics through rubber-stamp party regularity, a lot of luck and a sharp eye for the main chance. He has none of the flowing pretensions that many Senators wear like togas. After his nomination in Chicago he reiterated: "I'm a Jackson County Democrat, and proud...
...politician's dilemma-to kiss or not to kiss-he escaped neatly by explaining that he had a cold. Back in his hotel room he added another reason, "I might have dropped one." The nominee's bronchial tubes enriched the conversation further during his stay. When Andrew Jackson Higgins, famed boatbuilder, asked after his health, Truman said, "I've just got the heaves, Andrew. Have a chair...
...Douglas teamed up 15 times. They were joined often enough by Justices Murphy and Rutledge so that these four formed a bloc, usually ideologically to the left. The bloc on the right had Justices Roberts and Frankfurter as leaders, often joined by Chief Justice Stone and Reed. Justice Jackson was now the "swing man"-as Chief Justice Hughes used to be among the Nine Old Men-joining the right more often than the left...
...Portland Oregon Journal, pro-Willkie in 1940, switched to Term IV because "war is the compelling issue." Frail, spunky Mrs. Maria Clopton Jackson, owner of the Journal's controlling stock, refused to interfere with her editors' decision, but insisted on voicing her dissent. Said she to reporters: "When someone is in power too long ... he gets to feeling as if he is the owner, not just the administrator of a trust. . . . My opinion of Mr. Truman is so severe that I would rather...