Word: jameses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quarles's death shocked Washington. Day before, he had apparently been in the best of health. Like clockwork he had followed a normally busy schedule: a National Security Council meeting, lunch at his desk with Presidential Science Adviser James Killian, a conference with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, a briefing...
Know Thy Place. When Tubman took over in 1943, just a little less than a century and a quarter had passed since 88 former U.S. Negro slaves, backed by President James Monroe, the Congress of the U.S., and an idealistic organization called the American Colonization Society, landed on the Pepper...
Chris's father James Smith ran a blacksmith shop but seldom worked in it (he always said it was too much trouble holding the horse up). He liked guns better, and he could also scratch out a middling tune on the fiddle. Young Chris's closest companion was...
Comfortably cool in his air-conditioned office, President James M. Skinner Jr., of Philadelphia's Philco Corp., leafed through his weather reports last week and broke out a sunny smile. "It hit 90° in Indianapolis, 91° in Chicago, 92° in Cleveland, 93° in Knoxville, and...
Al Capone (Burrows-Ackerman; Allied Artists) is amusing proof of the old saw that each generation rewrites history in its own image. In the lurid cinemythology of the '30s, Capone was glorified by Paul Muni (Scarface), Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar) and James Cagney (Public Enemy) as a snap...