Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Henry Jackson, 99, pioneer photographer of the West; of complications following a fall; in Manhattan. At 22, a Civil War veteran who had fought with the Army of the Potomac, he escorted migrant Mormons over the Oregon Trail, drove a mule train over the Rockies, rode herd on 300 mustangs bound from Sacramento to Omaha. He photographed the building of the Union Pacific, the boom days of Cripple Creek and Leadville, made camera records of the Indians and frontiersmen of the Wyoming Territory, gave stay-at-home Easterners their first graphic pictures of the West...
...Remarkable Andrew" is far from trite, but equally dull. Its rather weird plot concerns the plight of Andrew Long, a strait-laced city employee who is framed by crooked politicians. With the unseen help of the ghost of his namesake Andy Jackson (not to mention the spirits of Washington, Marshall, Jefferson, Franklin, etc.) Andrew Long finally manages to extricate himself. But for a while in the picture even his friends wonder a bit when they observe him talking to people they can't see. Meanwhile the audience is just as baffled by the superfluity of ghosts whose figures they...
...tricks and tactics were not essentially new. An old-fashioned ambush broke the back of Britain's armored forces in Libya. Tobruk and Matrûh fell to typical shock assaults by land and air. In the U.S. Civil War, Stonewall Jackson and William Tecumseh Sherman won battles and made great advances just as Rommel did-by forced marches and surprise attacks when, according to the rules, their armies should have been resting for the next round...
...When Harvard gave an honorary degree in 1833 to Andrew Jackson, Alumnus John Quincy Adams, assailing Jackson as "a barbarian who could hardly spell his own name," raised such a row that Harvard kudized no other President for 39 years (Grant was the next...
...United States. The trend toward shorter hours, he said, goes back to the nineteenth century beginnings of the industrial revolution, and the issues raised by patent pools and monopolies are a part of the American trust breaking tradition that extends unbroken from the days of President Andrew Jackson to Thurman Arnold...