Most important trends for women, which was that american womens Labor Force Participation increased. Not only do they not go home after world war ii, they increasingly enter the labor market across the 19th the 1950s. A history of women in the workplace sunday at 1 p. M. Eastern. Next, highlights from season one of first ladies, influence and image. The 50thdiscussion on anniversary of the march on washington, and the legacy of Martin Luther king jr. Series, first ladies, influence and image. Over the next couple of hours, we will visit places with history curators. Away fighting the revolutionary war, Martha Washington ran their plantation. It is clear that martha arrived at mount vernon in 1859 and there was a lot of management that she had to do. When she married George Washington, she brings with her to mount vernon 12 housemates. That is really almost unimaginable luxury. These are slaves that are for the most part, not field labor, not producing crops, which is where your income
Term fixes as they kick the can down the road. And thats what the mark set expecting. Further moves down the road rather than a deal. Right. You wont get the big deal. I dont think you will get that grand bargain, bob. We may get some kind of deal that avoid the worst consequence he of the sequester. I think that likely to happen. Always the eternal optimist. Ty, back to you. Sue, thank you very much. Shop until you drop. At least for the month of january. Big name retailers reporting strong january sales after offering new merchandise. This despite consumers taking a hit to take home pay to higher payroll taxes which is part of the fiscal cliff resolution. Courtney reagan here on the retail beat. Hi, courtney. Welcome back from dallas. January an interesting month. It is promotional. Make way for full price spring merchandise. But that means many goods sold are sold at rock bottom prices that replaces it. Of the 18 drugstore retailers, Thompson Reuters has a gain of 5. 8 , year over y
Right . And im looking real close, and theres not a single hebrew letter on this entire thing. Theres not any letters. Like if you took the head of a pin and just went dot, dot, dot, thats all thats on there. And he say, you understand now, dont you . I say, i understand completely. And im walking backwards, security, right here. Considering last time im here i got the holy grail, i am a little disappointed that no one brought me the fountain of youth. Oh, you have it . Sometimes the good news is you get an amazing letter from someone, and a longtime reader of mine said, brad, i work at a museum in washington, d. C. That almost nobody knows about, and you have so see what our collection has here. And im like, listen, im really busy with the holy grail, so tell me what youve got. And he said to me weve got pieces of Abraham Lincolns skull, the skeleton of John Wilkes Booth and weve got the bullet that killed lincoln. They dont just have the artifacts, but they have pieces of some of the
To biloxi where he starts peddling newspapers. He was a newspaper boy. An honorable way to begin. Thats how i got my start. Of. [laughter] he gets his paris job at the daily herald his first job at the daily herald down in biloxi gulfport. Just purely serendipitously, its where i got my start, okay . [laughter] he portrays himself quite openly as a very gullible reporter, and i certainly hope that when youve bought the book and youve had a chance to look at it, youll be as entertained as we were by some of his early stories of falling for ruses and having great faith that everyone was telling him the truth. As you find out later, they werent always telling the truth. Of course, he then begins to develop a reputation as a very tough, hardnosed Investigative Reporter which gets him beat up a couple of times and sends him fleeing to the atlanta constitution where he continued to get beat up. [laughter] he did some just breakthrough investigative reporting that well hear about tonight. But
And for cosponsoring it, and also the Emory University woodruff libraries, particularly the manuscript, archives and Rare Books Library which houses the papers and the wisdom of a great number of southern journalists; white, africanamerican, of all sorts. And were so pleased that five of those are Pulitzer Prize winners, and the latest among them is jack nelson. Barbara was so generous and has made jacks papers our possession now, and theres some rich, rich history in them. And i encourage everyone to go to marble and take a look at them. Were here tonight to celebrate the life, the memoir, the papers of jack nelson with some people who knew him extremely well. Jack was a man of enormous influence and consequence in the nation. The story of jack nelson, for those who dont know, is the story of news reporting in the latter half of the 20th century. If you look at his career starting off, he was born in talladega, alabama, just across the state line, moves as a child to biloxi where he s