Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican Corruption. An editorial writer on the New York Evening World, Claude Gernade Bowers is a short, slim, dark, studious, scholarly, quiet man in his middle years. His specialty is early U. S. history. Like many a bookish man he has his villain-Alexander Hamilton-and his heroes-Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. He gained fame as an exciting speaker last winter when Democrats celebrated Jackson Day in Washington. His assignment as Keynoter at Houston put an entire political party and a huge radio audience at the vocal disposal of a man long confined to the indirect, often anonymous, medium...
...Bowers bow-wow there was a well-organized "demonstration" by delegates from Western states when "the hand of privilege" was pictured throttling the farmer and picking his pockets. At the close of Permanent Chairman Robinson's address a more spontaneous outburst was touched off by these words: "Jefferson gloried in the Virginia statute of religious freedom. He rejoiced in the provision of the Constitution that declares no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification for office or trust in the United States...
Bowers. Comfortably cool in this igloo in the desert, Democrats confidently expected a feast of oratory. Traditionally, the party's sessions have been marked by eloquent appeals to the memory of Thomas Jefferson, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. This year the keynote speech of Claude Gernade Bowers, historian and editorial writer for the New York Evening World, was awaited with more than usual interest. Keynoter Bowers had won great and sudden fame at a Jackson Day dinner (TIME, Jan. 23), by a brilliant attack upon the Harding "gang." In an era when oratory rarely moves, he stirred righteous indignation...
...easily missed would be Mrs. Jefferson Borden Harriman, seasoned veteran of conventions. Delegate Harriman bustled, conferred, entertained, all in the interests of the Brown Derby but with one eye on the features of Montana's rugged Walsh, onetime candidate. Did he frown, remembering earlier bustling, conferring, entertaining in his behalf? Did he smile, recalling that he had released his followers from political loyalty, if not from personal affection? Delegate Harriman speculated. In a dining-room high above Times Square, Manhattan, another friend lunched privately and importantly with his fellow princes of the press. Diminutive Louis Wiley, presiding over...
...regime has been successful, partly because he blended efficiency with tradition: it would have been dangerous to apply rigid card-index methods to the University of Virginia, where Southern bloods are wont to loll on the lawn and contemplate the architectural works of Founder Thomas Jefferson...