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...March, at Washington's Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner, Harriman was seated at the head table when Harry Truman broke the news that he would not run again. In the confusion that followed, New York Democratic Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick grabbed Harriman and said: "Averell, you've got to be a candidate to hold New York together." Harriman assented on the spot, and set to work with characteristic doggedness to make himself not only a favorite son but a man of the people. By last week, he could shout like any other candidate: "I am the Democrat to beat...
That was an interesting and snappy resume of revolutionary Latin America. However, don't you think you simplified the situation in Costa Rica too much: "A rustic democracy fit to gladden Thomas Jefferson's heart." What was all the uproar in San José in 1948, of which Otilio Ulate was the principal? As I recall, there was quite a bit of bloodshed then in that "rustic democracy...
...Costa Rican liberals fought a successful civil war to prevent reactionary congressmen from nullifying President Ulate's election. In 1787 Thomas Jefferson wrote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed irom time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure...
...headed West last week to speak at a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Portland, Ore., Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson suddenly looked, to wistful brigades of Administration Democrats, like a presidential candidate all over again. He was not only on the ballot in Oregon, but he was traveling 1,900 miles to speak to the voters of the Pacific Northwest. No, cried Adlai, no, no, no, no. This line of reasoning was all a horrible mistake. He had agreed to make the speech months ago, and somebody had slipped his name on the ballot without his consent...
...School is hampered somewhat by being centered in an old and out-moded building, Lawrence Hall, a red-brick structure near the Jefferson physics lab. The old building, however, is partially compensated for the fact that the school has a young and aggressive dean...