Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mike Conner's remedy was a sales tax. The fight over this tax was historic. Outraged Mississippians marched on Jackson, stormed from a mass meeting straight to Mike Conner's office. Outside the locked door an armed man shouted: "What are you peckerwoods waiting for? Let's get that - Governor." Mike Conner opened the doors, walked untouched through the crowd. Ten days later his sales tax passed the Legislature. When he left office four years later, the Treasury had a $3,000,000 surplus, colleges had regained their standing, and millions in bonds had been paid...
...Merry Widow left oldtimers in the first-night audience starry-eyed with memories of the 1907 days when Widows Ethel Jackson (see cut) and Lina Abar-banell, in hats reminiscent of poultry dinners, sang it for a Broadway run of 421 performances. In the orchestra pit, conducting its willowy waltzes with a hand dipped in authentic Viennese schmalz, was the oldest Merry Widower of them all, bald, paunchy Robert Stolz, who raised a baton on the first Vienna production...
Manager Shoot-the-sherbet-to-me-Herbert Schwetman played a hot cornet, while Cokey Wing, Colonel Fox, and Send-me-Sandford backed him up with violins. Lt. Mawhinney on the tuba and Ensigns Jackson and Hofheimer showed the faculty that there's more to harmony than Fourier Analysis. Miss Frances Jennings played the electronic musical instrument, the Theremin...
...President Andrew Jackson broke with Vice President John Calhoun, drove all Calhoun followers out of the Cabinet. But the two had never been close as friends or as political thinkers...
...pennant. The club that dominates Negro baseball is not Effa's Eagles but the Homestead (Pa.) Grays, originally founded for the diversion of Carnegie Steel employes and now owned by two Homestead Negroes: Cum (for Cumberland) Posey, a member of the Board of Education, and Sonnyman (for Rufus) Jackson, a juke-box impresario. So far this season, the Grays have won 18 league games, lost only four...