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...Preamble. But the men who made it believed in the doc trine that there are many "rights" anterior to government, and that these rights belong to all the people. Even without the Bill of Rights, which was added as an after thought largely at the demand of Thomas Jefferson, the Constitution guaranteed many liberties beyond the "right to property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter-Day Beard | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...soon learned that the South was still battling the Civil War, but it didn't bother us until the storekeepers tried to give us change in Jefferson Davis dollar bills...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE M. avakian, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 10/15/1943 | See Source »

tackles: Bronko Nagurski, Minnesota 1929, and Wilbur Henry, Washington and Jefferson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Peace & War | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Explanations. In Atlantic City, N.J., six-year-old George Patrick McLaughlin of Philadelphia was discovered hiding in a locomotive tender, promptly demanded spinach, explained he was en route to join the Marines and fight the Japs. In Jefferson County, Mo., twelve-year-old Vina Marler Nash, newly married, commented, "It's pretty nice. ... I guess I won't have to go back to school this fall." In Junction City, Kans., Marguerite See, a bus driver, drove with one foot bare, explained, "I can do a smoother job on the clutch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 13, 1943 | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...Churchill: You are an inspiring example of the motto of our great President Thomas Jefferson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winston Churchill Stresses Importance of Post-War Anglo-American Cooperation | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

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