Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Sarah Branch Jackson Coonley Morgan, daughter of Robert Jackson, onetime secretary of the Democratic National Committee, ex-wife of John Clark Coonley, Boston chain-store magnate, and widow of William Forbes Morgan, onetime Democratic National Treasurer; and Milton Dorland Doyle, Manhattan broker, vice president of the Washington Redskins; in Ellicott City...
Mother Says. In 1924 Sam Jackson died. To Maria he left controlling interest of the Journal, to son Philip Ludwell Jackson one-third (a second son, Francis, had lost his life in an accident at sea shortly after World War I). Once he decided to cut down the size of the paper's "Poets' Corner"; when Maria Jackson heard about it her foot came down. Phil Jackson had to go to Sunday Editor Sam Raddon and say: "Mother says we should build up the 'corner' again...
...Maria Jackson is frail and wrinkly now, and at 80 a great-grandmother. She lives in the family homestead on the fringes of Portland's business section with a cook, a companion, a chauffeur, a Pekingese named Charlie...
Last summer President Roosevelt eyed the old Oregon's 10,300 tons of metal, decreed it should be demolished for scrap. Had he ordered the wrecking of the eleven-story pile of granite, ink and eloquence that is the Journal itself, Maria Jackson would hardly have been more shocked. She complained some, but being patriotic she did not resist...
This week the old vessel is being given a proper funeral, complete with oratory & oomph. And in the pages of the Journal it is getting an obituary greater and longer than any the Journal ever published for any mere man-except Sam Jackson, who got a whole page. "Grams" wants it that...