Word: jeffersonism
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...Also an admirer of the serpentine wall was another President, Thomas Jefferson. After seeing "ribbon walls" in England, Jefferson reproduced them at the University of Virginia because they were 1) esthetically pleasing, and 2) structurally stronger than straight walls of the same width...
...Bade farewell and paid tribute to Veteran (68) Diplomat Jefferson Caffery, retiring after 44 years in the U.S. Foreign Service. Said Old Soldier Eisenhower, mindful of recruiting and morale: "The interesting life he has led ... would seem to me to provide some inspiration for able young Americans to go into that same service, a service that is constantly dedicating itself to the welfare of the U.S. all over the world...
...settled more firmly than ever before. On the surface, this was an affair between the British, who agreed to withdraw their troops, and Egypt's Man of the Year, Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser. In fact, the settlement was skillfully midwifed by the U.S. State Department through Old Diplomat Jefferson Caffery, then Ambassador to Egypt...
...more beds, the quiet and relaxation essential to recovery are impossible, and even private rooms are drab, fitfully heated and ill-ventilated. There are some gleaming exceptions, among them the Clinical Center of the National Institute of Health at Bethesda, Md., the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Los Angeles, the Jefferson Medical College Hospital's new pavilion in Philadelphia. But no U.S. hospital has been more carefully designed to avoid the old inadequacies than Houston's Anderson...
While profit-sharing is not a new idea (the first U.S. plan was installed in 1794 by Jefferson's Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin at his Pennsylvania glass plant), it was long opposed by labor leaders as a speed-up substitute for fair wages. Not until World War II, when profit-sharing offered a means of fattening employees' pocketbooks at a time when wages were frozen, did the plans start to spread fast...