Word: jacksonianism
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Honesty. Speeches and resolutions are very well, but the Democratic party is traditionally the party of individualism. There are as many brands of Democracy as there have been outstanding Democratic leaders?Jeffersonian, Jacksonian, Cleveland, Bryan*, Wilsonian. Now there was to be a Smith Democracy. The convention waited to hear Nominee Smith's interpretation of his leadership. When the telegram arrived, it contained three important statements...
...sleep. He visited the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, made lofty speeches and pleased his guests so well that the powerful Atlanta Constitution said in an editorial next day: "Tammany as an organization may have its detractors, but the men of Tammany are Democrats of the old Jeffersonian and Jacksonian schools. They are not everlastingly chasing after false gods and new 'isms' and 'schisms' . . . . Thousands of New York's Democracy may be Irish, but they are as good Americans as they are Democrats, and the Irishman is as jealous of his party...
Physicist Wilson. In 1895, when Professor Compton was a demure three-year-old baby at Wooster (he is now 35), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson began his serious study of electromagnetic forces. This was at Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University. Since 1925 he has been Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge...
...chargé d'affaires. Six thousand British Communists followed his coffin in London, 5,000 ,German Communists shouted "Hail Moscow!" as it passed through Berlin. Died. Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney, 61, editor, Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial-Appeal; at his desk in Memphis; of apoplexy. Thoroughly-trained journalist, bedrock Jacksonian Democrat, re ligious fundamentalist, his loss to the South parallels that of "Lafe" Young (TIME, Nov. 29) to Iowa...
...only vestige of the grandeur that was Rome which has escaped the austerity of the censor is the badge, symbol of authority, and lineal descendant of the fasces which the lector bore in front of the Roman consul on occasions of state. In token of the triumph of Jacksonian democracy, every performer in the procession will wear one of these badges upon the left suspender of his overalls, and every badge, to escape the suspicion of favoritism, will read: "Admit one Good only on the date punched...