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...Government entrusted its case to Robert Houghwout Jackson, 43, an able but little known small-town (Jamestown, N. Y.) lawyer who was made general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue last year. Mr. Mellon hired Frank J. Hogan, 58, one of the smartest, slickest, most successful lawyers in Washington...
...their warders were at loggerheads from the start. Said Napoleon of Sir Hudson: "The man is a coward of long experience and a gaoler from taste." Napoleon and his entourage shut themselves up in Longwood, their uncomfortable quarters high up in the hills, while Sir Hudson fumed in Jamestown. Both parties kept up a constant barrage of verbal and written insults, orders, recriminations, complaints. In order to annoy Sir Hudson and make it appear that he was being starved, Napoleon had some of his silver plate sold at public auction; Sir Hudson got back at him by searching the Longwood...
...buggy of an old Negro who had picked him up on the road from Jamestown, a young, history-loving sightseer jolted one day 20 years ago into Williamsburg, colonial and Revolutionary capital of Virginia. He found a ramshackle, sleepy town, its past glories all but forgotten, its historic buildings fallen to decay. Last week the same sightseer, now President of the U. S., rolled into Williamsburg by special train. This time he found a trim, spacious 18th Century village, complete with cobbled streets, grassy curbs, antique buildings...
...Beginning with those first winters of suffering in Jamestown and Plymouth, it has been the American habit to render aid to those who need it. ... No thinking or experienced person insets today that the responsibility of the community shall be eliminated by passing on this great and humane task to any central body at the seat of the Federal Government. You and I know that it has been with reluctance and only because we have realized the imperative need for additional help that the Federal Government has been compelled to undertake the task of supplementing the more normal methods which...
...nigger-in-the-woodpile, says Author Adams, first appeared in August 1619. The woodpile was a Dutch man-o'-war, which unloaded "twenty Negars" at the struggling English colony of Jamestown, Va. But Adams knows too much about history to singularize plural causes. Slavery, says he, was only a contributing factor in the widening divergences between North and South. Even in 1700 the antagonism between Massachusetts and South Carolina, "the two protagonists in our tragedy," was already latent. For the "rope of sand" that held the 13 colonies together was substituted a Constitutional chain of iron, which...