Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convention had been in uninterrupted session for six and a half hours. At the outer gates, galleryites were beginning to arrive for the night session. Up to the microphone stepped Chairman Sam Jackson to pull the neatest parliamentary trick of the convention. He announced that Ballot II would be taken immediately, and that, since there was no recess, the convention was still in afternoon session and no tickets for the night meeting would be honored. Even at this late date the bosses were taking no chances on getting a Wallace gallery...
...voice had boomed, too loud, through the cluster of amplifiers, the name of Henry Wallace set the galleries afire. From every corner of the Stadium, packed with PACsters, came the chant: "We want Wallace!" At this point the Wallace nomination might have been roared through. Balding Chairman Sam Jackson, try as he might, could not stop the chanting and the noise. Finally, he called for adjournment. The entire Stadium rocked with a chorus of "No!" But Sam Jackson purred smoothly: "The ayes have...
...Truman had also been utterly loyal for twelve years to Boss Pendergast-ever since he had lost all his money ($15,000) in a postwar Kansas City haberdashery venture, and Pendergast had started him off as a county road overseer. By 1934 Harry Truman had become presiding judge of Jackson County, Mo. (which in Missouri is actually the county's administrative officer; as such he spent $25,000,000 on roads and buildings). He was ripe for another step up the ladder, and asked Pendergast for the county collectorship. Big Tom replied: "The best I can do now, Harry...
Press and radiomen were told on Monday that Indiana Senator Samuel Jackson would read President Roosevelt's long-awaited letter about Henry Wallace to them that night. The press took this in stride. So did all the networks except...
That night, as Senator Jackson prepared to read the President's letter, CBS Announcer John ("Charley") Daly popped the hidden mike out of its bag, spoke pre arranged cue words into it ("I want air"), and thrust it in front of the Senator...