Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...OUTER EDGES (240 pp.)-CAar/es Jackson-Rineharf...
...letter in TIME [May 10] stated that a double equestrian statue of Lee and Jackson which had been erected in Baltimore was thought to be the only one of its kind in the U.S. and perhaps in the world...
...Federalists summoned party delegates to a New York City convention and nominated De Witt Clinton (defeated in the election by the Democratic-Republicans' James Madison). By 1832 the revolution against King Caucus was complete. Meeting in Baltimore, Democratic and National Republican conventions nominated Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay. The convention system was here to stay...
There have been 296 previous Harvard Commencements, one of which was honored by the presence of Andrew Jackson, another by that of George Washington. The distinction of today's affair is that it is by far the biggest ever. This year's exercises do not differ very much in plan from those of the first Commencement Day, which came late in August, six years after the founding of the College. During the three centuries since then only a few graduations have been cancelled, but there have been several formidable threats to the proceedings...
...somehow disappeared during the crossing, and was still missing when the Franks disembarked from the Queen Elizabeth. For another thing, U.S.-British relations had suddenly become anything but happy. Said one responsible Briton last week: "President Truman has antagonized our Foreign Office more completely than any American since Andrew Jackson...