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...George Washington's Farewell Address to drive home the basic need for religion and morality in the nation's life. Then he went on: "Public policy no longer is geared to the simple determination of that which is right and that which is wrong . . . The party of Jefferson and Jackson . . . that party of noble heritage has become captive to the schemers and planners who have infiltrated its ranks of leadership to set the national course unerringly toward the socialistic regimentation of a totalitarian state...
...Montgomery County, which adjoins Philadelphia on the west and north. Crawford is secretary and a director of the Ehret Magnesia Manufacturing Co. (200 employees), a respected community leader and a member of 39 organizations, including the Masons (33rd Degree), the Rotary, the American Legion, the Philadelphia Union League, the Jefferson fire company, the board of trustees of the Y.W.C.A. and the Republican Party...
...Columnist Walter Lippmann: "This is the Washingtonian model of the presidency. It is the style of the Washington who managed for so long and in a most critical period of our history to keep both Hamilton and Jefferson in his cabinet...
Died. Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Tillman Hooks, 78, adopted (when she was five) daughter of Jefferson Davis, President (1861-65) of the Confederate States of America; in New Orleans. Mrs. Hooks came to live at Beauvoir, the Davis Gulf Coast home, while her foster father was writing The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, later married Henry Hooks, a Texas railroad agent...
Toward the end of his case, Counselor Davis paused, set his gaze on the high, coffered ceiling, and softly quoted the words that Jefferson wrote in the Kentucky Resolutions, which in a sentence sums up the theory that public officials are servants of the law: "In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution...