Word: jubal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, the War Department arranged to send brusque, bustling White House Secretary Steve Early to SHAEF as trouble shooter. Franklin Roosevelt's press handyman, whose ancestors include Confederate General Jubal Early, was a staff member on World War I's famed Stars & Stripes, used to be a newspaperman himself...
...massive work of the Confederate warriors (Lee's Lieutenants, TIME, Oct. 26), closed with the aftermath of the Seven Days' battles. Volume II takes the reader from Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville and the death of Stonewall Jackson. Other famous "lieutenants" included are James Longstreet, Jeb Stuart, Jubal Early, A. P. Hill R. S. Ewell, D. H. Hill, J. B. Hood, R. H. Anderson, W. N. Pendleton. Detailed, scholarly examination of every inch of the battlefields is coupled with dramatic descriptions of men in action, adding up to an invaluable period piece. A fine successor to Author Freeman...
...little Frederick, Md. (pop. 15,802) last week came an object lesson in war financing. In the Civil War, the town was threatened with destruction by Confederate General Jubal Early, chose instead to meet his $200,000 ransom demand, borrowed the money from its five banks. The debt could have been repaid by a $25 emergency tax on each of the 8,000 residents in 1864. But last week the contemporary city fathers, struggling to repay the loan out of ordinary revenues, figured they had already spent $331,000 in interest, would not have their Civil War debt finally liquidated...
Other Confederate officers ("Jeb" Stuart, D. H. Hill, Jubal Early) had shown gallantry and what Freeman calls "the feel of action." In 1861-62, "Old Blue Light" Jackson alone showed generalship...
...seven years Washington correspondents have noted and written much of Secretary Early's blunders. An imposing, hot-tempered, red-faced Virginian (distant kinsman of Confederate General Jubal A. Early), a onetime newspaperman himself, and President Roosevelt's press secretary since 1933, he has also been the White House spokesman. Once he delivered what sounded like a Presidential rebuke to Henry Wallace for urging the Third Term. Once he relayed the President's views on the Monroe Doctrine in terms so confusing that neither State Department papers, editorials or his own cryptic statements later could clear them...