Word: jefferson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Notice. In Jefferson City, Mo., Prison Trusty M. T. McDonald finished off his weekly sermon at the penitentiary with the text: "I go to prepare a place for you . . . that where I am, there ye may be also," a few hours later escaped...
...Orator. His father, a big, kindly, stoop-shouldered man, was a druggist who became a Democrat in Republican South Dakota when he heard William Jennings Bryan speak. By the time young Hubert was seven, his father was already reading Tom Paine and the life of Jefferson to him. Before he was out of grammar school, Hubert Jr. went along to Democratic rallies and conventions, saw his father become first alderman, then mayor of Doland...
Teachers complained of absenteeism after all-night initiations. Parents were fed up with having their daughters come home with egg in their hair. Principal T. Guy Rogers of the Thomas Jefferson High School had another complaint: "We have had athletes who are not willing to play with non-fraternity boys." Other principals complained of snobbery: most fraternities wouldn't take in Mexican-American students...
...mile drive from Boonville, Mo. to Jefferson City. After he got to town, tall, grey-haired Attorney John Windsor decided to put off his tryst with history as long as possible. For a while he lounged in the lobby of the Governor Hotel. Then he went over to the Missouri and dropped in on the Rotary luncheon. Finally, with the air of a man who has been drafted for a patriotic pageant, he went off to the state capitol to help elect the President of the United States...
Soldier. When Jefferson Davis as Secretary of War organized the famous Second Cavalry Regiment (which produced twelve Confederate generals), Thomas was commissioned a major in the unit. At the beginning of the Civil War, all the elements of a personal tragedy were present in his situation: he was from the South and had principally served with Southerners; Virginia considered making him her chief of ordnance; Thomas had himself applied for the post of commandant of Virginia Military Institute a short time before...