Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republicans would win all seven governorships, eight new House seats and one Senate seat in 1958. He did not specify how this would be done. Of the eight Senate seats, five are currently held by Republicans and three by popular Democrats, Mansfield of Montana, Chavez of New Mexico, and Jackson of Washington. Thirty of the region's 53 House seats are in California, which has shown marked signs of Democratic growth in the past few years...
...London's Thames-side Shell-Mex House that the real drive to escape Nasser's dominance was being planned. There 30 of the world's top oil industrialists gathered at the urging of Standard Oil (N.J.) President Monroe Jackson Rathbone. They talked privately, partly because they had to be wary of defying the U.S. antitrust laws and partly because they have learned that in the Middle East their aims are sometimes best achieved by not loudly proclaiming them...
...baseball bum." Some Cincinnati fans suggested glumly that Hoak was a bum already-as a Dodger in 1954 and '55, he had looked poor next to Third Basemen Billy Cox and Jackie Robinson. Last year as a Cub, he was an unpopular and ineffectual replacement for handsome Ransom Jackson. He hit a piddling .215, set an embarrassing major-league record by striking out six times in a single game with the Giants...
Southern editors raced to combat with rebel yells and a battery of 105-mm. inkpots. Companies of cartoonists fired from sniper positions at the top of editorial pages, while the columnists, of course, made up the fifth column. SOUTHERN BLOOD BOILS! screamed the Jackson, Miss. News. SACRILEGE! shouted Tennessee's Kingsport Times. "President Eisenhower," sputtered the Shelby, N.C. Star, "must have lost his mind...
...clear that since the end of World War II he no longer dominates the whole canvas of modern art. He believes a work should be constructed, is distressed by the work of many young abstract expressionists, once grabbed an ink-stained blotter, shoved it at a visitor and snapped, "Jackson Pollock." But Picasso's latest work shows that he has lost none of his amazing powers of draftsmanship nor his virtuoso ability to improvise on a theme until it is obedient to his will. With age, Picasso becomes more impatient. His own limitations-an insensibility to the sensual qualities...