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...celebrate its achievement Hamilton let go with a big preparedness parade, in which virtually every Hamiltonian took part. Meanwhile some 50 other U. S. communities have adopted the Hamilton Plan and were putting it into effect...
...political bookmaker has yet failed to enter on his list of dark horses for the GOPresidential nomination race in 1936 the name of that bookish Hamiltonian, Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan. Since the Senator sailed for Europe last month, stable gossip has been to the effect that he would fill out his entry blank as soon as he returned. Last week in New York harbor newshawks cornered him when his ship reached Quarantine, stood with pencils ready...
...Governor Eccles is something of a Hamiltonian in his central banking philosophy, Senator Glass is a thoroughgoing Jeffersonian, defending the rights of the regional Reserve Banks and fearful of political contamination. In the Glass draft the Reserve Banks have a strong voice in, though not control of, the country's credit policies. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency are dropped as ex officio members of the Board, thus breaking that political tie. The name of the Federal Reserve Board is changed to Board of Governors?seven men, not more than four of whom belong...
...heyday of Hamiltonian federalism these protests from Lexington would have added to its considerable glory throughout the Small America of that time. Every pioneer and farmer would rise to the support of the Yankee patriots, every banker and broker would tremble with rage. But the sincere patriotism of those latter-day Minute Men of 1934 hits the Middle Western farmer, receiving regular handouts from the government, as a particularly sharp annoyance from some small-town Old-Dealers of the East. And the bankers, knowing from experience, what the Minute Men know from feeling, join chorus with Lexington...
...economic planning-just as Herbert Hoover did before the election. He believes in private property rights and due process of law no less firmly than does Chief Justice Hughes. For practical politicians like "Jim" Farley and "Joe" Robinson he has the greatest admiration. He has even expressed this arch-Hamiltonian view: "We would have better government if less people voted. There is no such thing as faith in numbers. The more numbers you have, the more foolish is the result." Friends know he is not being ironic when he says: "I am essentially a conservative fellow. I tilt...