Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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F.D.R.'s rejection of Wallace as a running mate in 1944 became a blow from which Wallace never recovered. An embittered and disappointed man, he found some small solace in demanding and getting the Commerce job of his old enemy, Jesse Jones. In April 1945, he saw Truman step...
Dictionary Publisher Adam Wagnalls (born Wagenhals) of Funk & Wagnalls was born in' Lithopolis in 1843. When daughter Mabel Wagnalls Jones died two years ago, in Manhattan, she left most of her estate to the little town. Last week tax appraisers finally put a price tag on her unusual bequest...
The memorial is a Gothic community center built by Mrs. Jones in 1925. It once housed an Esperanto school, still contains an art gallery and 8,000 books. Lithopolitans go there for movies and organ concerts. Last week the memorial had also become an educational cornucopia.
Like a mail-order catalogue, the show had a little of everything-from the sharp literalness of an Edward Hopper Civil War scene, to a tangled, crisscross abstraction by Mark Tobey. There were the sanitary surfaces of Georgia O'Keeffe, the fluid mists of John Marin, a pasteboard street...
Flabby. Jitters over steel's wage-price hikes, the special congressional session (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and the Berlin crisis (see INTERNATIONAL) sent stocks skidding on New York's Big Board. In five days the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 5.72 points to 185.90, just above the June low...