Word: jeffersonians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High-tariff Republicans call Cordell Hull a free-trader. He calls himself a Jeffersonian Democrat committed to tariff-for-revenue-only. In 1910 he damned the Payne-Aldrich law as "a miserable travesty, an ill-designed patchwork, a piece of brazen legislative jobbery" and in 1932 he flayed the Hawley-Smoot act as "utterly disastrous to our trade." Long an advocate of tariff reciprocity, he wrote that plank into the last Democratic platform. As President Roosevelt's Secretary of State his job will be to negotiate tariff treaties. Senator Hull's world views: "The mad pursuit of economic...
...Author- Midwest Jeffersonian Democrat, with little sympathy for Adams' politics, Biographer Clark remarks: "He was such an interesting old coot I had a fine time writing his life" (TIME, Jan. 25). He reports that there have been fewer biographies of Adams "than of almost any great American." Disregarding James Truslow Adams' The Adams Family (TIME, June 16, 1930), of which he made no mention in his bibliography, he says his is the first biography of John Quincy Adams in 50 years...
...some weeks before he drafted the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson used the more concise and definite sentence, "all men are by nature equally free." There is here no ground for the idea of equality of natural endowment, an idea which caused generations of Americans to consider it undemocratic, un-Jeffersonian, to question the natural right of any individual to remain an educational charge upon the public for as many years as he pleased...
...American educators are now alive to the fact that 919,381 enrolled college and university students, the product in too many cases of chance, fashion or fancy, are by no means the triumph of education which they once thought them. Instead, they are now seeking a way back to Jeffersonian democracy in education, a method of unscrambling the egg, a system which shall restore to higher education its democratic duty of confining its ministrations to minds willing and able to profit by care and direction...
...clipped mustache over unprofessorially thick lips, James Truslow Adams looks young (he is 53) to be the author of so many fat and respectable books of history. In 1921 Founding of New England won him the Pulitzer Prize. Other books: Revolutionary New England, New England in the Republic, Jeffersonian Principles, Hamiltonian Principles. Book-of-the-Month Club judges had no difficulty in making The Epic of America their unanimous selection for October...