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...Robertsons never called themselves "planters." They are dirt farmers, with no pillared porticoes. They have been Democrats since Jefferson's first term. They have been Baptists since before the Great Revival in 1800. In a hot and sensuous land, they are the fierce inheritors of "the direct Protestant Reformation...
...workers will soon match for cokes with a new kind of nickel. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau last week told the Philadelphia mint to get going on new U.S. 5? pieces containing 35% silver, 56% copper, 9% manganese-but no nickel. The current Jefferson head-and-home design will not be changed. Present coins are 25% nickel-75% copper, and the switch to new alloys will save about 850 tons of nickel and copper annually...
Junction. In Memphis, Andrew Jackson Poulton, en route from Farwell, Tex. to visit his brother after a 32-year separation, sat on a park bench, bummed a match from a stranger who turned out to be Thomas Jefferson Poulton, en route from Maydee, Tenn. to visit Brother Andrew in Farwell...
...Raimundo Aboim, Lieut. Colonel Loyla Daher, Lieut. Colonel Carlos Coelho and Aviation Major Adil de Oliveira. The navy was augmented by six warships, built in Brazilian shipyards for Great Britain and now returned by Britain to its new ally. To help Brazil tune up its war program, U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery returned to Rio from a vacation in the U.S. with prospective solutions for prickly Brazilian problems...
...Standard's gasoline sales to Axis airlines in South America were approved by Jefferson Caffery, American Ambassador to Brazil. Said a State Department "background" release quoted by Farish: "In connection with the testimony of Mr. Farish [before the Truman Committee] that the American Ambassador in Brazil and several State Department officials had approved the sale of aviation gasoline to an Italian airline in 1941, Mr. Farish's testimony in this regard is correct...