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...total Wisconsin rural vote, traditionally Republican, was down from the 1952 general election, principally because the weather was stormy and there were few exciting local contests on the ballots. In well-to-do farm counties, the Democratic percentage climbed moderately, e.g., in Jefferson County from 1952-3 33% to 37%. In the marginal farm areas and in some hog-raising areas, the Democratic vote climbed more sharply, e.g., in Iowa County from...
...this statement was, the A.A.U.P. was willing to adopt it as its official position. Then it moved on to debate the cases of eight campuses recommended for censure: the University of California, Ohio State, Rutgers, Temple, Oklahoma, St. Louis University, North Dakota Agricultural College, and Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College. Each school had only ten minutes at the meeting in which to defend itself, and in the end all eight were duly blacklisted. But to some of its members, the A.A.U.P. seemed far from giving the accused campuses the same sort of treatment it was demanding for professors...
...great many citizens. Each accepted the economic and social changes which the earlier movement had produced in its period of creative energy, and moved on to develop new answers to the new challenge. Each was identified in its earlier dynamic stage with a leader of great stature, with Jefferson, with Lincoln, and with Franklin Roosevelt...
...risk of oversimplification it may be said that the first, which extended from Jefferson's victory in 1800 to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, was characterized by a general acceptance, for the first time in history, of an effective federal government closely responsive to the majority will...
...first, which extended from Jefferson to the Civil War, found "a general acceptance for the first time in history, of an effective federal government closely responsive to the popular will...