Word: jeffersonians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hall charged that Committee Member Paul Douglas of Illinois was "one of the original instigators of the gloom-and-doom attack" during the last congressional campaign, and that one of the star witnesses, Harvard's Professor John K. Galbraith, was an "oldtime New Dealing, A.D.A.-type of anti-Jeffersonian radical [who] flirted around with the customary pink fronts," and "almost wrecked" World War II's Office of Price Administration...
...scenes. Craig knows how to fight, and loves a good one. The descendant of Scotch-Irishmen who came to Indiana from Virginia about 1815, he grew up in the tough, coal-mining atmosphere of Brazil (rhymes with Hazel). His father, Bernard Craig, 75, is still practicing law there. A Jeffersonian Democrat (the last Democratic presidential candidate he voted for: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1932), Bernard Craig was a fierce foe of the Ku Klux Klan in the days when it was dominating the state government of Indiana...
...brown derby, no winning ways, no fiery mannerisms. Although he once taught public speaking, he is only a middling-fair speaker-a quiet man who hides a sharp intellect under the linsey-woolsey coat of an upstate countryman. He has been described (inaccurately) as a Jeffersonian Republican and as a political tiglon, yet few voters know what, specifically, Ives represents-except in the broadest general terms...
...Jeffersonian Democrat of Senator Harry Byrd's school, Andrews, who abhors bureaucracy and high taxes, is an unlikely man to be running a big bureau to collect high taxes. But he believes that he can serve his principles by running an efficient bureau. Until he had reached middle age, even after he became an eminent C.P.A. in Richmond, Va., Andrews wanted to be a surgeon. Now that he is taking the fat (and quite a chunk of the lean) out of 60 million taxpayers' incomes, he feels that he has attained his goal in a different way. Says...
...aging prostitute who in a year accused him of infidelity. At 80, Burr, full of years and dishonor, died after making a will in favor of two illegitimate daughters, aged 6 and 2. CJ John Tyler was nominated for Vice President (1840) by the Whigs because, as a Jeffersonian, he was a nuisance to them in the Senate. A month after he was inaugurated, Tyler was playing marbles in a Williamsburg street when Daniel Webster's son brought him the news that President William Henry Harrison was dead of pneumonia. Tyler picked up his marbles, went to Washington, became...