Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. George Washington Collier, 100, The Bronx's last member of the G.A.R., in The Bronx, N.Y. Greenwich Village-born Collier was taken prisoner by Stonewall Jackson's men in 1861 at the Battle of Harper's Ferry. His comment on the current war: "Hitler's head should be chopped...
...more immediate interest, because of its imminent publication date, is "The Rough Roll" of the senior class. According to Editor J. E. Jackson, it will appear "shortly before March 20th." Jackson is an old hand at editing class books, having been responsible for the annual at Ohio Wesleyan University when he was an undergraduate. He has also had several years' experience with a commercial book manufacturer in Tennessee...
...LOST WEEKEND − Charles Jackson −Farrar & Rinehart...
Equipment was more than a problem: there wasn't any. Holland Smith started practicing with two ancient ship's launches whose engines frequently did not work. He experimented with Boat Builder Andrew Jackson Higgins on a fast, high, stout-bottomed boat that could bounce over shallow reefs and hit the sand hard enough to get men into shallow water...
...chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary; of a heart attack; in Vienna, Va. During his eleven years as a Senator the short, plumpish anti-New Dealer had sponsored an anti-lynching bill, opposed Supreme Court revamping and the Third Term. His successor will be Samuel Dillon Jackson...