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Born in Spring Creek, Pa., a town his great-grandfather had helped found, he was reared as an Andrew Jacksonian Democrat. He began practicing law in Jamestown, N.Y., after taking a two-year Albany Law School course in one year. His first clients were union men arrested in a violent transit strike. He got them acquitted. Before long he was vice president and general counsel of the Jamestown transit company. By the time he went to Washington, at 42, Jackson's abilities were widely recognized. His cases had included a $1,700,000 judgment, a hearing by lantern before...
...folded five* of the six remaining general dailies (all with circulations of less than 10,000), leaving only the Jamestown (N.Y.) Sun (circ. 10,722) still published by I.T.U. The papers said angrily that lack of advertising killed the papers in cities where "the people [wished] for a second and competing paper." Apparently the people's wish "for a second and competing newspaper" was not strong enough to send them to the newsstands...
...mistreated him that one day, "forgetting all reason," John "beat out the Tymors braines with [my] threshing bat, for they have no flailes," and took off on the fellow's horse. Many adventures later he reached London, and almost at once embarked with the Virginia colonists for Jamestown...
Playing It Safe. In Columbus, Ohio, State Treasurer Roger Tracy was inclined to agree with the man who sent him $220 and an anonymous letter from Jamestown, Tenn., reading: "I am a World War I veteran. I don't know just how long I was in Ohio before I joined the Army, but I drew a little bonus, and I did not make any untrue statement to get it, but I am returning it. I guess you think I'm crazy. Well maybe...
...village girls. But C.P.P. did even better. They provided the Gold Coasters with a slogan ("Free-DOM"), a salute (a raised forearm with all five fingers outspread to denote the Five Freedoms), and a vision of Utopia. They also had a hero: Nkrumah, "rotting in jail." Outside Jamestown prison, where Nkrumah sat mending fish nets in Cell No. 9, demonstrators sang...