Word: marias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Maria Jackson heard about it, she hit the ceiling. To Journal editors went an order: let art museum news be ignored for awhile, the Journal must have proper respect...
...Says." Charles Samuel Jackson, a native Virginian, headed west when he was still in his teens, reached Pendleton, Ore. By 1882 he had acquired a half interest in the Pendleton East Oregonian, by 1886 had persuaded Maria Clopton, another Virginia native, to become his wife. Of Sam Jackson's many ventures, his marriage was the most successful...
Even in those early days Maria's influence was potent. Editors often were told by Sam that "Ria says" this or that ought to be done; they did it. She heard that the outworn U.S.S. Oregon, relic of the Spanish-American War, was to be decommissioned by the Navy. Said she: it ought to be brought to Portland, turned into a shrine. Soon the massive battleship was anchored in the Willamette River in downtown Portland...
Mother Says. In 1924 Sam Jackson died. To Maria he left controlling interest of the Journal, to son Philip Ludwell Jackson one-third (a second son, Francis, had lost his life in an accident at sea shortly after World War I). Once he decided to cut down the size of the paper's "Poets' Corner"; when Maria Jackson heard about it her foot came down. Phil Jackson had to go to Sunday Editor Sam Raddon and say: "Mother says we should build up the 'corner' again...
...author of this diagnosis is Architect Jose Luis Sert (nephew of famed Spanish muralist Jose Maria Sert), who speaks the view of the International Congresses for Modern Architecture (C.I.A.M.*). To their title question, Can Our Cities Survive? (Harvard University Press; $5), Mr. Sert and his group answer: Not unless they are replanned; considering the shape modern cities are in, the only moot point is whether they will die lingeringly of internal maladies or violently by bombing...