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...JEFFERSON SELLECK (303 pp.) - Carl Jonas-Little, Brown...
Some "spontaneous" movements have already sprung up in other states. In Virginia and Arizona, Kefauver clubs are organized. In California and Oregon, steps have been taken to put his name on the primary ballot. At a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Seattle last month, Northwest Democrats cheered when his handsome red-haired wife Nancy was introduced as "the first lady of Tennessee who might one day be the First Lady of Washington...
...opposed to the basic domestic doctrines of both Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. He warned of the dangers of expanding Federal Government, the delusions of the welfare state, the fallacy of the class struggle, and the perils of loose spending. Said he in New York in 1949: "Jefferson [was] a man we recognize as the great liberal of his time, a man who could say, 'The best government is the least government.' Now we recognize the degree to which we have changed when we come to see that the definition of a liberal...
...overdone it. By keeping inferior students in high school, we have watered down the educational job we could do for good students . . . We imposed on the teaching profession a grand and glorified day nursery. They are not running scholarly institutions." Darden's recommendation: "Return to public education as Jefferson saw it... Teach every child to read and write. After that ... we must leave public education open to the competent students . . . But we need not coddle the incompetent...
...eleven top U.S. Communists. According to FBI Undercover Agent Herbert A. Philbrick-the prosecution's surprise witness at the trial-inconspicuous Professor Struik was an active and dedicated Communist. Struik had made no secret of the fact that he was a trustee of Manhattan's Jefferson School of Social Science and of Boston's Samuel Adams School, and a member of the Council of American-Soviet Friendship. Witness Philbrick testified that Mathematician Struik had also given lectures at secret Communist cell meetings in Cambridge. After that testimony, Struik's name began to make headlines...