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...difficult task of editing the papers of the prominent Adams family is under the direction of Lyman H. Butterfield '30, who has also consented to lecture in American history here at the University. Butterfield, associate editor of the Jefferson Historical Papers at Princeton, calls the Adams family collection "unique, surpassing all others of its kind...
Died. George W. Armstrong, 88, multimillionaire Southern oilman who offered in 1949 to give Mississippi's struggling little Jefferson Military College $50 million in oil lands if it would teach white supremacy, admit only white Christians, got turned down by the school, which then had no trouble raising an unrestricted $100,000 from less prejudiced philanthropists; in Natchez, Miss...
...passion, prejudice and even hatreds have on occasion swept over us and almost engulfed us . . . At times we have been close to failure but we have never failed in our climb toward the pinnacle of true justice. And we are climbing today to meet the test of Thomas Jefferson that 'the most sacred of the duties of a government is to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens...
...character, Washington established that he, not Congress, would name his Cabinet, and that he, with the Senate consenting only afterward, would make treaties and direct foreign policy. At book's end, the hero reluctantly decides to accept a second term to avert a widening split between Hamilton and Jefferson and thus save the new republic. And at that point, Historian Freeman's stiff-backed prose comes to a halt. Scribner is now looking for a suitable historian to write the concluding Volume VII, bringing George Washington through his last six years...
...refused to give any reason for the dismissal and refused to make known the findings of the Loyalty Committee. From the morning papers the three scientists learned, that they had been discharged "in the best interests of the insti- tution." Six weeks later, each received a letter, signed by Jefferson's attorney which said: "I can assure you that the decision . . . to terminate your service . . . was not based upon a finding that you were a subversive person as that term is defined in the Pennsylvania Loyalty...