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...needed it in his campaign against Republican Everett Dirksen (Lucas, no red-hot campaigner, agreed to run again only on Truman's promise of active help). By the sort of happy chance that is possible in a machine-run city, the Democrats' sho.w coincided with a civic "Jefferson Jubilee" celebrating the 150th anniversary of Jefferson's election. A nonpartisan "host committee" was organized to raise $250,000, and Democratic wards briskly funneled contributions to it. Explained "Botchy" Connors, a cigar-smoking ward boss: "If there are any businessmen in the ward, we ask them to contribute...
Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas lost his shoes on the Baltimore & Ohio Capitol Limited, padded off the train in Chicago in his stocking feet, took a cab to a shoe-store and bought a new pair. Then he went about his business of attending the Jefferson Day Jubilee (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Boyd needed that document and he was glad to go through tribal protocol to get it. As editor of the projected 52-volume Papers of Thomas Jefferson, he was reaching for everything that Thomas Jefferson ever wrote...
...PAPERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON, Vol. I (679 pp.)-Edited by Julian P. Boyd -Princeton University...
...solemn, elm-shaded circle near Ponca City, Okla., and received a delegation of white men. As the ceremonies began, Moses Harragara, an elder of the tribe, handed a copy of a manuscript to the boss white man, Princeton Librarian Julian P. Boyd. It was no ordinary document. President Thomas Jefferson had written it and handed it personally to Oto Chief Standing Buffalo in Washington in 1806. Librarian...