Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Clarke, along with 30 or 40 other Democrats, was delighted when the Club visited the home of Congressional candidate Jackson Holz last Monday...
...ninth inning of a game with the Phillies one night last week, three Brooklyn Dodgers strode to the plate, one after the other hit home runs to win the game, 6-5. The feat, staged by Duke Snider, Randy Jackson and Gil Hodges, was only the latest record of a baseball season in which the steady drumfire of home runs has made bleacher-sitting pleasantly hazardous and baseball fans doggedly argumentative...
...Carola Mandel, Cuba-born beauty and wife of a Chicago department-store executive, broke 300 straight targets to beat three other top women and 14 men in the annual Rebel Open Skeet Shoot all-gauge championship at Jackson, Miss., went on to establish a new women's world record of 387 birds...
Jefferson & Jackson. The first slave to be sold on what was to become U.S. soil, Furnas says, landed at Jamestown in 1619, a full year before the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth. The early settlers saw nothing immoral in slavery, since many a white was himself an indentured servant and little better off. Economically, slave labor was on the way out when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and made it profitable to keep huge tracts of land in cultivation. Even so, a rich planter might clear no more than a 1% profit annually. A representative weekly food ration...
While the slave trader (Andrew Jackson was one for a while) and the overseer with his bull whip were the logical villains of slavery, the master sometimes outdid them in inventive cruelty. One South Carolina owner used to put his Negroes in hogsheads with nails driven, in all around and roll them downhill. One fugitive slave, possibly a survivor of some such punishment, had himself nailed up in a box 3 ft. by 2½ ft. by 2 ft. and survived a 25-hour shipment on the railroad to the North. There was a real-life model for Eliza...