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...possession of revolutionary literature is to be a crime in this country, almost every school and library is guilty. The Declaration of Independence, the speeches of Jefferson and Lincoln are fuel for another book-burning. We are back in the days of Palmer Red Raids and the Lusk Committee. The Minneapolis case is more than a test of the Smith act: it is a test of our democracy...
...Jefferson Aquinas. Many historians have argued that U.S. democracy is the direct outgrowth of colonial Protestantism, with its emphasis on individual responsibility, but Dr. Maynard has a different theory: "Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers [considered] Locke's Two Treatises on Government as the Bible of the Revolution. . . . Now Locke's thought was formed by Hooker, and Hooker's thought was formed by St. Thomas Aquinas." Furthermore, most U.S. Catholics supported the Revolution "because the principles of the Revolution were so closely consonant with Catholic political philosophy...
Johnson regards Roosevelt as at least "an unusual President," classes him with the strong liberals (Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt I, Wilson). Says he: each of these liberal Presidents has left the republic more firmly established than he found it. Roosevelt II, says Johnson, has done likewise by bolstering the economic welfare of the lower third of the nation, and substantially strengthening the national morale...
Onetime amateur fighter, itinerant football player (Ohio Wesleyan, Miami University, Washington & Jefferson), salesman, press agent, insurance executive, promoter of newspaper goodwill, Ohio-born Publisher Newman once published Fourth Estate (later sold to Editor & Publisher}, was organizer and first president of Columbia Broadcasting System, was the last publisher of defunct Judge. His latest publishing venture was the Senator, a Washington gossip magazine which piled up $84,000 debts in 27 issues...
...kinswoman, has written a remarkable biography. Author Dorsey has an almost biologic feeling for the violence of growth-the uptilting of mountains, the plunge of rivers, the tidal surge of young and healthy nations. And she is equally at home in the Pleistocene age and the administrations of Jefferson and Madison...