Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assist at a consecration; the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker. The two-and-a-half-hour ceremony was witnessed by some 3,000 people, including British Ambassador Lord Halifax and his Lady, Supreme Court Justices Owen J. Roberts, Stanley F. Reed, Robert H. Jackson, Felix Frankfurter...
Speaking with an authority on marriage derived from 20 years as rector of Manhattan's famed Little Church Around the Corner, Dr. J. (for Jackson) H. (for Harvelle) Randolph Ray deplores hasty wartime weddings. He thinks they are usually the result of "glamor and excitement rather than genuine affection," do not give the couple a chance to adjust to each other, are especially unfortunate if immediate offspring result. But Rector Ray knows that warriors and their girls will continue to get married no matter what he thinks, so offers the following seven rules for war brides...
Before he had finished his long (1 hr., 18 min.) anti-Negro harangue, some of Mississippi's listening Senators, Representatives and assorted littlewigs had propped their feet on legislative desks, were deep in the pages of the Jackson Daily News. But Fustianeer Bilbo ranted on. Stepping gingerly as Agag through the bad eggs of his logic, he somehow managed to: 1) praise Franklin Roosevelt, 2) damn Eleanor Roosevelt, 3) boom Term IV, 4) denounce New Deal bureaucracy, 5) predict bloody postwar race riots, 6) deny that U.S. Negroes have any right to vote. Typical Bilboisms...
...words distressed some in Jackson, Miss., but they gave a stomachache to the good citizens of Washington, D.C. As chairman of the Senate District Committee, The Man is mayor of the nation's capital. For a quarter of a century, disfranchised residents of Washington have agitated for a vote. Now Mayor Bilbo explained why he is determined that they shall not have it: "Negroes already compose 30 to 40% of the population of the capital city. . . . The alleys would outvote the avenues...
...made special contributions. The first skate that could be steered was invented by Yankee machinist James Leonard Plimpton in 1863. It consisted of two pairs of wheels which turned inward or outward as the skater shifted his weight. Modern skates still use this principle. Jackson Haines, father of figure skating on ice, mastered the pre-Plimpton rollers and toured Europe...