Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prophet. Joseph Smith explained that the Book of Mormon was the new expression of the everlasting Gospel. The import of this revelation was clear. Joseph Smith was God's Prophet, Seer, Revelator and mouthpiece. On the raw frontier in Jackson County, Mo., he established the "true church." Thousands flocked to him-and were persecuted with him-until, after eight years of moving, mobbings, house burnings and guerrilla warfare, Smith sent the Mormons into Illinois. There they began building a new temple, and a new town: Nauvoo...
After one hour and 50 minutes of deliberation, a federal jury last week convicted Munitions-Makers Murray and Henry Garsson and ex-Congressman Andrew Jackson May on three counts of bribery and conspiracy to defraud the Government (TIME, July 15, 1946 et seq.). The maximum sentence for each count: a $10,000 fine, two years in jail...
...long-range significance of the Nürnberg trial," Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief U.S. prosecutor of the top Nazis, once said, "lies in the effort to demonstrate ... the supremacy of law over such lawless and catastrophic forces as war. . . ." Had the lesson sunk...
Still it looked like a dirty way to go. And investigation by City Engineer William Jackson in 1893 vindicated the bard. Jackson's maps show 406 pollution entries into the Charles River varying from what he termed "slight" cesspool overflow to waste liquors from a gas works, "an abominable nuisance...
...Samuel Jackson Snead had never forgotten his three most horrible minutes of golf, at Philadelphia's swanky Spring Mill course eight years ago. On the final hole, with golf's greatest prize-the U.S. Open -all but won, Sammy swung at the ball. There was a cloud of sand but he had missed the ball; it rolled feebly to the edge of a sand trap. Sammy swung again. The ball plunked to the edge of a trap on the opposite side of the green. To cap his rout, he missed a one-foot putt...