Word: jeffersonianism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Genial Jeffersonian...
...states. In Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, the Democratic chances are good, in fact better than in any election since Wilsonian times. Assuming victories in these seven states, the Democrats would still need to win in three most important campaigns: In Iowa where Claude R. Porter, able Jeffersonian, faces Radical Smith Wildman Brookhart, the effervescent cure which regular Iowa Republicans have at last swallowed. In Masisachusetts where David Ignatius Walsh, onetime Governor and Senator,* beloved of the Irish of Boston, the most potent Democratic vote-getter in New England, clashes with Senator Butler, prosperous-looking business man, chairman...
...were on the verge of believing that the President had become a follower of the Jeffersonian policy of state rights rather than that of the Hamiltonian doctrine of centralization, but before the echoes of his Williamsburg speech [TIME, May 24] have died away, we find him entering upon the most centralized power of the national Government by this executive order...
...building was once offered to the U. S. Government as an Embassy, but Congress declined to appropriate the moderate amount asked, for reasons of "Jeffersonian simplicity," which balked at a Royal Palace to house the envoy of a Republic. During the war Queen Margherita turned her palace into a hospital for the wounded Italian soldiers...
...changed conditions of life; the demand for big things done on a big scale, and the eye-opening effect of the war upon methods of government cooperation in industry. Public opinion is as powerfully behind government intervention now as it was opposed in the days of Jeffersonian democracy...