Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Something Sinister." That was the tallyho. Squarely in the middle of the field as the Mead pack took out after the Garrsons was the baldpated, leaden-hued figure of Andrew Jackson May, veteran (15 years) Congressman from Kentucky and long-time chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. Witness after witness took the stand to testify that he had worked hard to help the Garrsons. He had introduced Henry Garrson to Ordnance Chief Major General Levin H. Campbell Jr.* He had arranged to unfreeze Garrson funds which were blocked by the Government pending renegotiation. He had prodded the WMC into...
...Patterson's sister paper, the Times-Herald, gave it a black bannerline buildup. It was one of the biggest news stories of the year-if true. Never in U.S. history had a President told Supreme Court justices to get out. The story even named the four justices: Black, Jackson, Frankfurter and Murphy. To devoted News and Times-Herald readers, it looked like the straight dope. To newsmen, it did not: the "scoop" was signed by poison-penman Columnist John O'Donnell...
...Said Oregon's Republican Senator Wayne Morse: not the Democrats. "A friend told me not long ago that the Democratic Party was the party of great liberal Presidents. He named Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson and Roosevelt-and then he stopped short . . . I pointed out that they're all dead...
Frederick Jackson Turner, Wisconsin's famed historian of the western frontier (described by Historian Carl Becker): "The lecture itself, if that is the word for it, seemed never 'prepared.' [It] was just informal, intimately conversational talk, always serious without ever being solemn; enlivened with humor . . . yet never falling to the level of the sad professorial joke. . . . No, lecture isn't the word . . . no musty air of academic infallibility clouding the room, no laying down of the law and gospel according to Turner; but . . . novel ideas carelessly thrown out with more questions asked than were answered, more...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Authors Charles Jackson (The Lost Weekend) and Dorothy Parker pick apart Sinclair Lewis' Main Street...