Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nineteen years previously the then latest success-story in the Adams family had packed his bags on the White House lawn, inwardly hoping that Old Hickory Andy Jackson would move in through the delivery entrance. Major-General Jackson, himself, was elected to the Senate after his years in the presidency, but his fellow Tennesseans were obliged to bury him before they could install him in Washington once again...
Married. John Daniel Miller Hamilton, 55, onetime Republican National Committee chairman (1936-40); and Rosamond Kittle Jackson, 39; he for the third time, she for the second; in Philadelphia...
Commented an Episcopal minister at Jackson: "I believe that the tide of progress is finally sweeping even into Mississippi...
...Malvern. The summer homes of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart, Conductor Walter Damrosch, the late Henry Morgenthau Sr. and scores of other wealthy people had burned as though they were built of butter pats and bacon rinds. U.S. cancer research had received a terrible blow. The red-brick Jackson Memorial Laboratory, with its irreplaceable records and 90,000 precious mice, which had been carefully inbred for generations to produce various manifestations of cancer, had been destroyed...
...American Past combines the well-documented events of U.S. history with their human underpinnings: Washington borrowing money to make the trip to New York City for his first inauguration; John Quincy Adams bathing naked in the Potomac ; Wilson nibbling crackers while pecking out his war message to Congress; Jackson, when asked if he had any regrets in his life, admitting that he had two: "He had been unable to shoot Henry Clay, or to hang John C. Calhoun...