Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between times he took sun baths in a pair of bright green trunks, began reading Arthur Schlesinger's The Age of Jackson. When the yacht anchored in Delaware Bay he went swimming, employing a sedate sidestroke which enabled him to keep his glasses unsplashed...
...perspective and full-dress biographies-can hardly get well started until: 1) the bulk of Phase II testimony is in, 2) F.D.R.'s papers as a whole are opened to investigators. One of the first to try: 28-year-old Pulitzer Prize winning Arthur M. (The Age of Jackson) Schlesinger Jr. who hopes to finish a New Deal history in the next two years...
Last week in Washington dignified Elisha Walker got in to see the Mead Committee, just under the wire of its recess for one month. He informed the war profits investigators that slick Murray Garsson had got the $5,000 on a note signed by Representative Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee; then both had reneged on paying off the loan...
...Prompters. In the White House the word "gang" does not necessarily have a sinister connotation. Most U.S. Presidents have had their gangs, some big, some little, some called one thing, some called another. Jackson had the "Kitchen Cabinet"; its chief cooks were two Kentucky editors, Amos Kendall and Francis Preston Blair. Wilson had Colonel House. Teddy Roosevelt had his "Tennis Cabinet," the "high-minded and efficient set" of young men which included Gifford Pinchot and James G. Garfield. Harding had Harry Daugherty and Albert Fall, who belonged to his official Cabinet and doubled as part of the gang...
Charles (The Lost Weekend) Jackson, who three years ago happily moved to New England-"the epitome of the American spirit . . . the home of American culture"-was ready to get back to New York City, to "bring up our children under democratic conditions." He had discovered "the stultifying atmosphere of New England prejudice; it's in the air, you get it on all sides, there's no pretending it isn't so, it can't be ignored. . . . The children are as bad as their parents and grandparents. Education has really done them no good...