Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then," demanded Justice Robert H. Jackson, in a dissenting opinion last week, "can the Court today hold it a 'high constitutional privilege' to go to homes, including those of devout Catholics on Palm Sunday morning, and thrust upon them literature calling their church a 'whore' and their faith a 'racket...
...reversal represented no change in the views of the eight Justices who participated in both decisions. The same four (Roberts, Reed, Frankfurter, Jackson) were still for restraining the Witnesses. The same four (Stone, Black, Douglas, Murphy) were still for the Bill of Rights. The replacement of ex-Justice Jimmy Byrnes by Justice Wiley Blount Rutleage had made the difference...
...year Republican voting trend continued. After 16 years as Mayor of Baltimore, ruddy, cherubic Howard Wilkinson Jackson, 65, last week found himself out of a job. Democrat Jackson, who had kept a profitable insurance business on the side, was soundly trounced (20,000 votes) by Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, 42, fireman's son, lawyer, spellbinder. All other Democrats on the ticket were elected, but Republicans had won the best flitch of political bacon. Democrats, who have lost the mayoralty only twice before since 1900, blamed the defeat on 1) the accumulated enmities which pile up on any longtime officeholder...
...long past midnight. In his Wardman Park Hotel apartment, Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan sat sunk in an easy chair with a biography of George Washington in his lap. Piled beside him were other biographies: lives of Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt. The Senator's broad dome nodded drowsily. His cigar...
...John Bricker nor any other reliable Republican wheel horse can beat Roosevelt in wartime. But "the people will really be voting for a Commander in Chief rather than for a President, and there are no credentials equal to Mac Arthur's upon that score." Clincher is the Washington-Jackson-Har-rison-Taylor-Grant-T. Roosevelt tradition of soldier heroes who have been swept to the White House on crests of military glory. Vandenberg is prudently holding his tongue in public "until the proper time...