Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard park bench in Washington's Lafayette Square, three of the nation's most distinguished citizens held a momentous conference on the Rubber Scandal last week. The sun gleamed dully on the scabrous green of the old Andrew Jackson hobbyhorse statue. Serious, bespectacled James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University, shed his coat. So did aggressive, square-jawed Karl Taylor Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch-to whom the bench is a favorite office (TIME, May 12, 1941)-kept on his light summer jacket...
...competition grew out of a discussion following a talk to member of Government 25 by C. D. Jackson, vice-president of Time, Inc. Only students registered in this course wefe eligible for prizes...
Among the judges of the essays was Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government and member of the Faculty of the Graduate School of Public Administration. Others were Roy E. Larson, president of Time Inc, and publisher of Life Joseph Thorudike, assistant managing editor of life, and C. D. Jackson, vice-president of Time...
What men sing as they march forth to war is a continual vexation to serious musicians. In the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson's "foot cavalry" were fond of a song praising goober peas ("Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas!"); while the inconsequential battle hymn of the South became...
This is the first time that such a contest has been held. It happens that in the course of Professor Friedrich's Gov. 25 on Public Opinion and Propaganda, prominent laymen in the field are asked to give guest lectures every week. One of these speakers was C. D. Jackson, general manager of Life, who talked to the class, on the intricacies of Time-Life...