Word: jeffersonian
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...green-pajama sleep. He visited the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, made lofty speeches and pleased his guests so well that the powerful Atlanta Constitution said in an editorial next day: "Tammany as an organization may have its detractors, but the men of Tammany are Democrats of the old Jeffersonian and Jacksonian schools. They are not everlastingly chasing after false gods and new 'isms' and 'schisms' . . . . Thousands of New York's Democracy may be Irish, but they are as good Americans as they are Democrats, and the Irishman is as jealous of his party...
...existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over the land like the lice of Egypt." For the same reason that he fought the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, he opposed the McNarv-Haugen farm relief bill. Senator Reed's other Jeffersonian axiom is that the U. S. should not meddle in the affairs of Europe...
...Jeffersonian Diplomacy", Dr. Baxter, Sever 35, History...
Last week able Jeffersonian Taggart could not decide whether or not to sue. Onetime waiter and still professional politician, yes; professional gambler, no. So he sat on his Indiana front porch, rocked...
This steelyeyed, iron-jawed playboy of the Senate, this Voltaire-tongued bastinado of the uplifters, this Rabelais-reading Jeffersonian -this James A. Reed of Missouri-what a sizzling presidential campaign he would hammer out! From stump to stump across the land, he would blast the imbecilities of the age. Sometimes his tongue would snarl, sometimes it would ripple with a silvery metaphor; then people would know why the Senate galleries were filled when "Jim" Reed spoke...