Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lady Jackson, who lectured here this spring was cited: "A charming lady whose respected voice and clear mind call the West to freedom through faith...
...Lady Jackson and Panofsky will deliver the major addresses at this afternoon's meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. Pusey, Massachusetts Governor Foster Furcolo, and Alumni President George Whitney '07 will also speak...
Honorary Doctor of Letters degrees were conferred on Barbara Ward Jackson, British economist, and Civil War historian Bruce Catton...
...European charge of ubiquitous vulgarity, and will bear the tag of "The New Rome" peaceably. But they will bridle at the suggestion that they are about to embrace a Caesar. Author de Riencourt traces what he takes to be an imperial growth of presidential power from the age of Jackson to Franklin Roosevelt, who, he says, was symbolically offered the kingly crown that Caesar, on the Lupercal, "did thrice refuse." To a Cleveland crowd during the 1940 campaign, Roosevelt said that, when the next four years were over, "there will be another President," upon which the crowd started to shout...
Bibb has no objection at all when a college ballplayer is so good that he is assured of a career in the majors. Texas has sent some, including Dodger Innelder Randy Jackson and Boston Manager Pinky Higgins, and Bibb himself went to the Chicago White Sox directly from the Texas campus in 1920. A keg-shaped, hard-hitting outfielder, he stayed in the majors for twelve years, averaged .312 at bat. But today, says Bibb, many boys with too little talent are tempted to sign baseball contracts and quit school. The Kansas City Athletics, for example, have signed 322 collegians...