Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They sped over The Hill, Augusta's exclusive residential section, to the swank Augusta National Golf Club, built in the early '30s under Bobby Jones's personal direction.
Behind the blockade and the club's magnificent stand of magnolias, Ike and his party relaxed. They were quartered in Bobby Jones's white-frame cottage. General Ike got in a few licks at his hobby, oil painting. In the evening, the women slipped downtown to a movie...
Leggy Lauren Bacall took a look at her part in The Girl from Jones Beach, and said no: "I'm not a bathing beauty; I'd be embarrassed." Warner's promptly suspended her salary.
The union continued its strike against the New York Stock Exchange. Some 700 Exchange workers were still out. But the brokers who pinch-hit for them had no trouble handling its booming business. In one day, 2,140,000 shares were traded, the biggest since April 14, 1947. By week...
How Many Died? Author Jones tells the long story in chronicled detail: the disappearances (till bodies turned up later); the killings in "justified self-defense"; the kidnaping and executions. One day in 1882 the Hatfields intercepted seven peace officers who were taking some of Old Randolph McCoy's sons...