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...expenses by firing 180 excess employees, he was bombarded into retreat by the protests of Congressmen. For importers, heavy tips to customs agents are a necessity. In their eager study of U.S. institutions, Filipino politicos had learned from Hague and Pendergast, as well as from Madison and Jefferson...
...Democrats still hold the record. They scooped up $530,000 (5,300 diners at $100 per) at a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Washington last April...
Concluded Highet: "I want us to teach that even these 'classic' men were subject to human conflicts and pressures. I don't want to debunk them . . . I don't believe in the late-'20s school of showing Jefferson as a bungling dilettante, or Washington as an ignorant country squire. That's all nonsense. These were all great men, greater than you or I. But I want to keep them from being statues. That's what they've become from bad teaching...
...satisfy half a dozen ordinary men. As a journalist, he tossed off articles lively as hand grenades. As history professor at Harvard (1870-77), he launched the first graduate studies in history in the U.S. As a practicing historian, he wrote a classic, nine-volume study of the Jefferson-Madison administration. He hobnobbed with the great, picked every first-rate brain of the Victorian era, traveled from the South Seas to the Arctic Circle, and finally totted up the findings of a lifetime in his pessimistic masterpiece, The Education of Henry Adams...
With two minutes left to play, Eliot led 14-12. Paschal broke through the Eliot line and went 52 yards to score.This is the play in which Bill Hickey was injured. On the far left is DAVE JEFFERSON, Dunster. Left to right are JIM WYCOFF, Winthrop; BOB EDEN, Dunster, who made the tackle; BILL HICKEY, Winthrop, carrying the ball, and ED BLODNICK, Dunster...