Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Harry joined full-throat in the bedlam when William Jennings Bryan ("He was one of my heroes") stampeded his second convention with his silver-tongued, silver-oriented (16 oz. of silver to 1 oz. of gold) oratory. In 1924, then a member of the Jackson County Court under the auspices of hard-knuckled Democrat Boss Tom Pendergast, Politician Truman sat with ears growing numb under his crystal-set earphones. He listened to almost every word of the 14-day, 103 -ballot convention in Madison Square Garden (Alabama-"24 votes for Oscahhh W. Undahhhwood") that finally nominated John...
MISSISSIPPI. Despite the stifling heat in Jackson's city auditorium, Governor James Plemon Coleman quickly whipped the state convention into line, eased a Coleman majority into the 44-man unit-rule delegation. He thus headed off the rebels who wanted to make third-party noises before the convention and left himself free to bargain in Chicago for the loosest civil-rights plank...
These strong words came this week from the respected, nonprofit American Institute of Management* after a three-month study of G.M.'s published figures. The survey was the idea of A.I.M.'s founder-president, Jackson Martindell, a hardheaded businessman himself, who has been president of Fiduciary Counsel (investment counselors) and Fiduciary Management (an investment trust), last month won control...
...active aspect of the program will center on volunteer participation in the Jackson Holtz Congressional campaign in Massachusetts' 10th district. The main goal of the Democratic volunteers is to collect enough signatures to put Holtz's name on the ballot in the September primary...
...tempers flared still higher, North Carolina's salty Democratic Senator Sam Ervin cut smoothly between the two, reminded them that "Jonah made a very wise remark to the whale. He told the whale if he had kept his mouth shut, that thing wouldn't have happened." Both Jackson and Engine Charlie joined in the laughter and later shook hands...