Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home State of durable ex-Senator Jim Watson gave the Senate another notable orator last week-this time a Democrat: balding, 48-year-old Samuel Dillon Jackson, ex-State Attorney General of Indiana, ex-prosecuting attorney, longtime elder in Fort Wayne's Presbyterian Church, active member of the Scottish Rite. Governor Henry F. Schricker appointed him to fill the unexpired term of the late Frederick Van Nuys (see p. 82).* Said Senator Jackson: "I will support the President...
...annual $100-a-plate Jackson Day dinner (terrapin soup, breast of capon, burgundy), speakers and audience also took it for granted that Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only Democrat who can win in 1944. Second place on the ticket was the only puzzle. Friends of Paul McNutt moved energetically among the guests. The stock of House Speaker Sam Rayburn (who spoke in the President's regular spot at Jack son Day dinners) went up perceptibly. But by the time Vice President Henry Wallace rose to affirm that the "ageless" New Deal was far from dead, big & little Democrats were...
...depression had struck the nightclubs. Jimmy went to Hollywood. Clayton went along as manager. Jackson joined another trio, but returned as one of Jimmy's backstage assistants. Jimmy's oldtime admirers hate to recall what happened to him in Hollywood. His more obvious buffoonery was played up, but the subtle, split-second comic counterpoint between Clayton, Jackson & Durante and their jazz band never penetrated Hollywood. In 1936 Jimmy gave himself a change by touring Europe. In Glasgow, his act so moved Sir Harry Lauder that the classic old Scottish comedian rose from his seat and joined Jimmy...
...resume mastery of his profession. He was, in his own tongue, "colossial." His take ($2,750 weekly from radio, $3,500 more from the nightclub) helped add up to his best fiscal year-about $250,000. He moved into his old suite at the Astor (No. 472) with Eddie Jackson, Jack Roth, for a quarter of a century his drummer, hat buyer, trainer, secretary, valet, friend-and Mr. Umbriago...
Sweet Encyclopedist. Jimmy is probably the hardest-working millionaire extant. He eats little (two raw eggs for breakfast), sleeps little (about five hours), reads widely (keeps an encyclopedia in the bathroom). Jackson and Roth never leave him alone; all three continually fuss over each other's colds, headaches. Jimmy goes to the cemetery every Sunday-in New York, to visit his father's grave; in Holly wood, to decorate his wife...