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...Dealers are not a showy lot, but none matches the official simplicity of Jacksonian Mr. Secretary Hull. At Montevideo for his first major Latin American conference, an hour after the boat docked, with hat in hand he was trudging about the town, informally calling on the delegates, meticulously mispronouncing their names. He would knock on the door, say "I'm Hull of the U. S." and begin chatting. Astounded, then charmed by this informality, delegates from the banana republics laid aside their silk hats and silk manners, forgot their jealousy and hatred for the Colossus of the North...
...convincingly that few readers are likely to question it. Brief and compact, with subtle critical formulations worked unobtrusively into its smooth and scholarly prose, it places Whitman's poems in relation to the life of his time-not only to radicalism, the Abolitionists, the Utopian socialists, the Jacksonian Democrats, the youthful robber barons, the trade unions, but to the educators and scientists whose work Whitman studied and the German philosophers whose tomes he praised without studying...
...smoke-filled committee rooms at Washington the Ramspeck bill is, of course, singularly unpopular; in the nation at large, however, a different verdict is rendered. The most notorious of Jacksonian institutions must be destroyed. However great the senatorial inertia, however difficult the abandonment of old practices, however pleasant the rewarding of loyal friends with the juicy plums of public office, the day of judgement is at hand. Civil service reform has been postponed long enough; the time for action has arrived...
...coldness of his eye and the hostile tilt of his cigar, National Committeeman Eugene Talmadge of Georgia stood out like a skeleton at a feast. Ever since President Roosevelt removed Georgia's relief administration from his hands, Governor Talmadge has called himself a "Jeffersonian," as distinguished from a "Jacksonian." Democrat. Popping up in Washington, Gene Talmadge ostentatiously absented himself from the Jack son Day Dinner at the Mayflower Hotel but showed up at the Willard next morning just before Boss Farley made his rousing speech...
...vigorous denunciation of the Administration, Col. Theodore Roosevelt charged that the national government is not only attempting to build a colossal Jacksonian political machine, but it is also trying to break down completely the histrionic separation of powers in the federal system. Demolishing state lines ruthlessly, gathering the reins of government into the hands of the White House, it has used the argument of national crisis to justify its concentration of powers in the hands of the executive...