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...days before Christmas and all through the Jefferson Club rang merry tunes and the clinking of friendly beer mugs. The occasion was in celebration of the following events: (1) Johnny Craig (the little Corporal) taking that sad, but seemingly inevitable step . . . marriage. (2) Carl Helgard Hartwig, (the yooman-in-charge), moving from 1st class to Chief. (3) Johnny Carey, more commonly known as "Sandy," moving up into the rate of 1st class storekeeper, and the Christmas season in general. However, as the evening progressed the components of the group found new and interesting things to celebrate...
Since most personnel live in or near the Yard the 500 seat auditorium of the Music Hall near Jefferson Physical Laboratories is used. Due to the limited capacity, certain evenings are set aside for the various units, with the officers and families of all instruction and administrative staffs, and the ships' companies seeing the first showings at 2000 Friday nights...
...Glee clubs and dramatics (when Eddie Cantor wore velvet pants on his way to play Fauntleroy at the Alliance, a Jefferson Street toughie blacked...
...Paterson (The God of the Machine) have all taken part in what might be called a new constitutional convention of the spirit. They have been busy conducting such an argument about "rights," "powers," "duties," the nature of a federal system, and what not, that if Jimmy Madison, Long Tom Jefferson and Alec Hamilton were to return to earth they would feel themselves right at home. It is not too much to say that U.S. intellectuals in 1943 went out and ratified the Constitution all over again. But some of them had semantic reservations...
Marshall v. Jefferson. Professor Commager's book is subtitled "a study in Jeffersonian democracy and judicial review." For the most part it is an attack aimed at the Supreme Court. In his distrust of judges, Professor Commager echoes Thomas Jefferson's opinion that Chief Justice Marshall was "a crafty chief judge who sophisticates the law to his mind, by the turn of his own reasoning." When Jefferson became President, one of the first things he did was to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts, which he regarded as unconstitutional. Professor Commager thinks that Jefferson was quite within...