Word: jeffersonianism
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Founder Joseph William Gray was a testy little Jeffersonian who declared in the first scrawny issue of the Plain Dealer that "the stupid fool who cannot, in this age of thrilling events, 'throw some fire into his writings ought to throw his writings into the fire.' " Cleveland was then a mudhole of 6,000 population and six newspapers, including the Eagle-Eyed News Catcher. Editor Gray put his fire into nose-thumbing rhetoric, got himself sued by Horace Greeley, denounced by Charles Dickens (then touring the U.S. like "a peevish cockney traveling without his breakfast"). Bigger fame came...
...economic policy, and in foreign policy. One need not agree with the validity of all the author's conclusions to recognize the value of his approach. His recognition that for the Roosevelt administration to produce a workable economic system it must employ methods which are the antithesis of Jeffersonian democracy is typically realistic...
...when the P-D thundered against Prohibition, whooped it up for the League of Nations, and denounced iniquitous Republicans. In charge of the P-D editorial page for 30 years, Johns never deviated from the P-D platform outlined in 1907 by Joseph Pulitzer, which called for Jeffersonian democracy, individual liberty and journalistic independence...
...Pennsylvania added an all-coach streamliner, Jeffersonian, to the New York-St. Louis run with a schedule only ten minutes slower than the Spirit of St. Louis...
...late ex-Ambassador William E. Dodd would no doubt have approved the motives of his 35-year-old son, William Jr., in setting up a William E. Dodd Foundation to foster his Jeffersonian ideals. But he might have wondered at some streamlined Jeffersonian aspects of the memorial which that Foundation subsidized last week...