Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showgirls, is making his first real nose-to-nose appearance in twelve years. Schnozzle ("I know I'm not good-lookin', but wot's my opinion against tousands of odders?") has aged but fortunately not mellowed, is again in the vein of the late, great Clayton, Jackson & Durante act, able to concentrate on his own mad, multileveled comedy which Hollywood usually heavily diluted with other men's ideas. He brings on his old partner, Eddie Jackson, partly to strut, mostly to stooge; fetches his fans with old favorites like Inka-Dinka-Doo; he insults waiters, lambastes...
...Dudley, which looked good all season, Vergobbi and Cummings were the stars. Jim Foust's offensive play, and that of Al Jackson and Dave Loring on defense made Winthrop what it was. Lowell, the defending champions, started out well, but lost its five starters at mid-years...
...souls would never have thought to look. In 1921, with his haberdashery under the hammer and black days ahead, Truman looked up some old servicemen friends in the Pendergast organization. Truman was a veteran, a farmer, a Mason, a Democrat from three generations back; he had friends all over Jackson County. The machine made him road overseer, then country judge (an administrative post), finally U.S. Senator...
...Truman had bigger ideas. In selecting the Committee's chief counsel, he rejected all political recommendations, went instead to Attorney General (now Justice) Robert H. Jackson for advice. Thus he got a top-flight investigator: rotund, brilliant, young Hugh Fulton, a Justice Department prosecutor who had sent Howard C. Hopson, head of Associated Gas & Electric Corp., to prison...
...Dissenting: Justices Black and Douglas; not participating: Justices Jackson Rutledge...