Word: federalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress none too happy. Before nightfall Senator Robinson hastened to assure the Press that "the President has not renounced the Democratic theory of states' rights." Most Democratic Senators were decidedly lukewarm, if not openly hostile to what sounded very much like a revival of the doctrines of the Federalist Party, dead since 1817. Said Florida's Fletcher: "We have tampered with the Constitution enough already." Said Texas' Connolly: "I would be very slow to vote for an amendment." Said Missouri's Clark: "I had assumed that the question of Federal and state government under the Constitution...
From 1783 to 1788, The Independent Journal helped make U. S. history. Published twice a week, its most famed feature was a column called "The Federalist." which contained editorials written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay. Last week in Manhattan, the Columbia School of Journalism revived The Independent Journal. Printed on four sheets of rough paper, the new edition copied the make-up of the old as closely as possible...
...Roosevelt party entered the White House at 11 a. m. with almost embarrassing promptness. It just missed colliding in the hallway with President Hoover and his aides as they hustled to the Red Room to receive their callers. Beneath a fine Federalist cut-glass chandelier President Hoover sat down on a plum-colored velvet couch. Mr. Roosevelt was nodded into a seat beside him. Secretaries Stimson and Mills, Democrat Norman Hezekiah Davis and Professor Raymond Moley distributed themselves nearby. Mr. Hoover, as usual, took a cigar. Mr. Roosevelt, as usual, took a cigaret...
...From the Federalist period until 1928 Newburyport, Mass, was a staid, church going, codfish-eating community. Before and since, this has been far from the case. Prime clown of early Newburyport "Lord" Timothy Dexter. He sent coals to Newcastle, warming pans to the In made a fortune. He lived in a mansion bristling with minarets and wo statues. He drank constantly, crown haddock-hawker his private poet laureate with a wreath of parsley, spelled v than Chaucer, published oftener...
...first administration Washington wished to prevent the formation of political parties. Yet as his term of office drew to a close we see how divergent opinions on the important issues of the day gradually led to the formation of the Federalist and Republican camps, dominated by the two irreconcilables Hamilton and Jefferson. The bitter defeat of the Federalists inaugurated a long period of Republican supremacy coming to a tottering climax in the election of John Quincy Adams over Clay, Crawford, and Jackson. It is in the chapters on the struggles of the Jacksonian era that Mr. Lynch is most successful...