Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Gilbert Winant, onetime (1925-26) Governor of New Hampshire, bought for his private collection the famed Edgehill portrait of Thomas Jefferson, painted by Gilbert Stuart. He bought it from Francis Burton Harrison, great-great-nephew of Thomas Jefferson, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippine Islands, now resident of Scotland. Never until now has this portrait, by many , regarded as the finest ever made by famed Gilbert Stuart, valued at $100,000, belonged to a person in no way related to famed Thomas Jefferson...
...country: "If you cannot agree about prohibition or about any other contentious issue nationally, agree to disagree about it locally. Make this freedom to disagree, and this willingness to revive a healthy local sovereignty, the basis of your actions and the pillar of your strength. You have Jefferson's word that it is sound governmental policy, and your own experience to tell you it is sound common sense...
...argues Ritchie. Whether he can make a sufficient dent upon his party to propel it in the direction either of Jefferson or of Ritchie, we have...
...Congress. *Thomas Jefferson loomed in 1799 as the foe of Federalism, leader of Republicanism. Present day Virginians hail him as father of the Democracy...
...what, pray, has the excellence of Dr. Jefferson's preaching and his freedom "from garbled sensationalism" got to do with the remuneration he receives. Did St. Paul, St. Francis, St. Ignatius claim return from their saintliness...