Word: jeffersonian
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...mechanism needed to assure able young people from all economic classes a chance to continue their education. Jefferson thought that having public schools and colleges was enough; President Conant believes that private scholarships are needed; and Mr. Williams puts up a brief for public scholarship assistance. The Jeffersonian notion is thoroughly outmoded, and the President's faith in the adequacy of private funds is also no longer tenable--his own annual pleas for scholarship funds growing more and more urgent as continued economic distress makes the problem increasingly acute. Willy nilly, educators must turn to the federal government for financial...
...attained much of this freedom by creating, during the 1920 Democratic convention in San Francisco, a disputatious Jeffersonian character named Godfrey Gloom, honorary sergeant at arms from Amity, Ind. Godfrey was conjured up as a one-day feature, but the Times editoriat liked him. They kept sending him to conventions for 16 years, summoning Davis back from free-lancing to keep Godfrey on the record. After the 1936 Democratic convention, Davis killed off his aging Jeffersonian, interring Jeffersonianism along with his bones, and no less a Times bigwig than Washington Correspondent Arthur Krock wrote his obituary...
...less to say and has consistently said less at his press conferences than any Cabinet member; yet with the sole exception of the White House, they are the best-attended in town. A backwoods Congressman, he is the No. 1 U. S. Internationalist. An old-fashioned Jeffersonian free-trader, he has lived and worked at the heart of the centralized, streamlined nationalism of the New Deal for almost seven years-and has changed the New Deal more than it has changed...
...propaganda about collective farms sympathized with its poor peasantry. But Poland had a record of social progress which, in terms of her initial difficulties, seemed as imposing as those of Europe's totalitarian States. Its Sejm, or Parliament, looked feeble compared to London or Washington. But it was Jeffersonian compared to the drilled and subservient Parliaments of Moscow, Rome and Berlin. Its foreign policy looked a little shifty, but it was clear as a brook compared with the secret diplomacy of Communist and Fascist States. Its finances looked troubled-but not in comparison with Germany's blocked marks...
...Author Agar's standards, Jackson, Lincoln, Bryan and La Follette were Jeffersonians, and Franklin Roosevelt is one; Calhoun, Jeff Davis and many a later politician who considered himself a Jeffersonian made principles of what were only methods to the sage of Monticello. Tracing this division through the familiar story of Jackson and the Bank of the United States, to Bryan's part in Wilson's nomination, Author Agar often wanders far afield but enlivens his account with pungent political sermons. Indifference, self-seeking, the vulgarization of politics outrage him most, and the apathy of citizens before political...