Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it." So, according to tradition, President Andrew Jackson declared his displeasure at the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Worcester v. Georgia in 1832.* Last week, in the face of similar intransigence on the part of Demo-Christian Premier Antonio Segni and his government, peppery, 78-year-old Enrico de Nicola, president of Italy's fledgling Constitutional Court, struck back with an effectiveness that would have won a smile of approval from stern old John Marshall...
...decision: that the Federal Government rather than the State of Georgia had jurisdiction over 4,000,000 acres of land owned by the Cherokee nation in Georgia. The outcome: Jackson refused to carry out the decision, and Georgia continued to enforce its laws upon the Cherokees in defiance of the Supreme Court...
...LOUIS, Sept. 28--Milwaukee's chance to take a commanding lead in the National League pennant battle was ruined tonight as the St. Louis Cardinals combined Ken Boyer's three-run double with some staunch relief pitching by Lindy McDaniel and Larry Jackson for a 5-4 triumph over the Braves...
...countrymen have not been touched by J.D.R. Jr.'s gifts of land to the nation: Atlantic rollers loudly crashing and spuming on the rock-girt coasts of Acadia National Park in Maine; the rhododendrons of the Great Smokies, redolent and languid in the haze; Jackson Hole, sweeping green and tawny and on across shimmering lakes to the foot of the icy, steep Tetons in the fall. "It was such a beautiful place," J.D.R. Jr. would say, "and I wanted to have it opened up so that people would...
...Died. Jackson Pollock, 44, bearded shock trooper of modern painting, who spread his canvases on the floor, dribbled paint, sand and broken glass on them, smeared and scratched them, named them with numbers, and became one of the art world's hottest sellers by 1949; at the wheel of his convertible in a side-road crackup near East Hampton...