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...slanted through the half-shaded windows, fell across the shoulders of his blue tropic-weight suit. It was quiet in the stifling room. What he was going to tell them about, the President continued, was the most important event in the defense of the U. S. since Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase; 'it would be announced within 22 minutes to the House of Representatives in Washington; from there it would be flashed to all their newspapers. Mr. Roosevelt grinned at his audience's chagrin-a story and no chance to send it. Flourishing his ivory cigaret holder...
Casually he compared himself to Thomas Jefferson, and the circumstances of the trade to that which had faced Jefferson when, without Congressional authorization, he bought for $27,267,622 the whole vast territory from the Gulf to Canada, west of the Mississippi to the Rockies. That was Mr. Roosevelt's historical precedent for the Big Deal of the New Deal...
...Louisville, partners of Jefferson Woodworking Co. wondered why three Negroes were whitewashing company property. Explained one of the Negroes: seven years ago the company's president had paid him $5 in advance to do the job. Same day he was involved in a killing, had been in jail ever since...
...task of Franklin Roosevelt in accepting the Third Term nomination was colossal-it was to explain why a move that Washington and Jefferson had thought improper was necessary and right for him. The task of Wendell Willkie's acceptance was almost as great-it was to challenge Franklin Roosevelt without intensifying class and party hostilities, without plunging the U. S. into a desperate political fight over foreign policy, without arousing the bitterness that would weaken U. S. defense. There was a tone to be set for a critical campaign. And there was a huge, hot and widely traveled crowd...
...occasion was managed with historical care. In 1789 Thomas Jefferson, Minister to France, addressed his fellow Americans from the steps of Philadelphia's Independence Hall. He had just returned from Paris, where he had witnessed the first determined steps towards a French Republic. This week, another envoy to France, William Christian Bullitt, also recently returned from Paris, stood on the same steps (under the auspices of the same American Philosophical Society which had sponsored Jefferson) and declared: "I have seen the French Republic destroyed...