Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maquoketa, Iowa. In front-page boxes headed "We're Sorry," the weekly Jackson Sentinel & Maquoketa Excelsior has informed its readers several times that advertising was so heavy that many news items were being omitted...
...explanation claims that when rugged, unerudite President Andrew Jackson finished reading the papers designed to dissolve the second United States Bank, he marked them "O.K." (oll korrect). Another explanation points out that when Jackson's henchman, President Martin Van Buren, ran for re-election in 1840, his slogan was OK-the watchcry of his political organization, the Old Kinderhook Club, of New York. Before the election, which William Henry Harrison won, the New Orleans Picayune chortled: "OK. These initials, which in party parlance are understood to mean Oll Korrect, are now used for-Orful Katastrophe...
Self-Sustaining. In Jackson, Ohio, Robert S. Campbell, by living to 96, became the beneficiary of his own life insurance...
...Among Civil War youngster Generals: Jackson, 37; Stuart, 28; Pickett, 37; Custer, 23; Forrest, 41; Sheridan, 31. At Appomattox, Grant...
...James Knox Polk, who guided the House in the hectic Jacksonian era, took more abuse and needling than any other Speaker, before or since. Polk put his, and Jackson's, program through Congress and graduated to the Presidency...