Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...segregationist dailies pounced jubilantly on the story as a Yankee-sent sermon on the evils of mixing the races in the classroom. When a Brooklyn principal killed himself during a grand jury investigation of violence at his junior high school (TIME, Feb. 19), Mississippi's extremist Jackson Daily News front-paged the story with a picture of a Negro policeman guarding the school. Caption: "Mixed school violence led to this...
...Never," brags Jackson, "have I violated confidences or tried to scoop fellow reporters by virtue of knowing something as a legislator that they might not know as newsmen." But it is fellow newsmen who have now brought Jackson's hat tricks under fire. John S. Knight's Akron Beacon Journal (circ. 161,624) lectured him on ethics in an editorial headed
...CLINGAN JACKSON SHOULD QUIT. Last week
Alone among Ohio political editors, the Youngstown Vindicator's lisping, kewpie-faced Clingan Jackson, 50, has already picked his favorite in the seven-way race to win the Democratic nomination for governor in May. Jackson's choice: Clingan Jackson. His selection was no surprise to readers of the Vindicator (circ. 99,930), who have watched Jackson juggle a dizzying succession of hats since 1936, when he became the paper's political writer while serving as a state legislator...
During his long coverage of politics, Jackson has been a candidate for office in seven primary and four general elections (and lost only three primaries), served six years each as a state senator and a Democratic central committeeman. He has bagged appointive plums ranging from chairmanship of Ohio's Highway Construction Council (at $50 a day) to membership on the Strip Mine Commission. While drawing $8,000 a year from his Vindicator job, nimble Newsman Jackson since last May has helped make ends meet by working four days a week as an $8,400-a-year member of Ohio...