Word: jeffersonism
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Scandal of the coin world is the way these beginners are being threatened by speculators. This month, for instance, before and during the Denver convention of the American Numismatic Association, the price for a roll of 40 Jefferson 50D (which signifies 1950 minting in the Denver plant) nickels jumped from $500 to $750, then settled...
...interwoven excerpts from a terrifying Salem witch trial, historical notes on the ill-treatment of American Indians, liberal quotes from the prospectus of Freedomland, U.S.A., and offerings from the views of various Southerners (real and imagined) on the Negro. Among them is one from that conscientious democrat Thomas Jefferson, who concluded, ". . . their inferiority is not the effect, merely, of their condition of life...
...never wearied of noting that a great-grandfather, Judge Hunter Holmes Southworth, owned vast spreads of rich Delta cotton land in pre-Civil War days. The judge's daughter, Mrs. Susie Southworth Yerger, moved in the highest social circles of the Confederacy, was a close friend of Jefferson Davis' wife Varina...
...greater Presidents."Off to the airport soon afterward, Barry flew his Bonanza to a commencement address at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. This time the subject was again patriotism and conservatism, with a generous portion of praise for an old Democrat named Thomas Jefferson...
Afterward, the crowds of parents and graduates swarmed to him for a handshake. Said one suntanned rancher to his wife: "You know, he even looks like Thomas Jefferson...