Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never before was black terror so openly insolent in the U.S. Everything honest and brave is exiled or put in prison. The haberdasher from Jackson vies for the laurels of the little corporal from Munich. . . . Who is this new apostle of imperialism? ... A man who loves bow ties, wears his pants two inches shorter than ordinary, and . . . has no other external marks of distinction. . . ." (After a visit to the U.S. last year, Russian Writer Ilya Ehrenburg had waxed sarcastic over the mysterious interest the U.S. press has in personalities and personal likes: "A reporter [wrote about] the burning problem...
Dunster: le, Parker; lt, Knight, Papleacos; lg, Berkeley, Roy; c, Weeks; rg, Heller, Richardson; rt, Wesen, Coyne; re, Graham, Smith; qb, Guiney; lhb, Manning, Aldrich, Jackson; rhb, Schneider, Dann; fb, Rich, MacDonald...
...bright new figure at Littauer this Fall has remained close to the University picture since before the Twenties: first as a graduate student working under Frederick Jackson Turner and as late as 1943 in the Norton Regional Planning chair. He gives the several centers of study in public administration their due but likes to feel that here "more than any other place . . . there is a genuine reflection in the student body of the different parts of the country." This is perfect grist for the mill of a man whose special approach to American government emphasizes the interplay of sectional differences...
...print in their Clipsheet, the Methodists cried: "Shocking! . . . an astonishing breach of Naval discipline. . . ."As for teetotaling fighting men, "many of the greatest military men the world has produced have been notably abstemious." Among them the Methodists listed Sergeant York, Jimmy Doolittle,* Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, who "feared whiskey more than bullets." "Perhaps," said Clipsheet drily, "the Admiral would not 'trust' these...
...need organized, independent, political action. We need liberal Democrats fighting within the party to make it, if possible, once again the party of Jackson, Wilson, and Roosevelt. We need independents who will meet the varied legal requirements of the different states for a third party as a hedge against the complete sellout of the present Democratic leadership. We need new political raw material--new candidates for public office. Older men and women who have shied away from politics must step into the battle as candidates, if we are to improve Congress. Young Americans must be encouraged to make careers...