Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winston-Salem, by the fact that it is off the main railroad line, up in the hills. You have to change trains at Greensboro, a second-rate town (considering its advantages) where, dazzling and unexpected above an ill-kempt street lined with shabby buildings, a single white skyscraper (the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., largest in the South, assets, $31,000,000) towers up, its façade handsome with carving, its superior ground-floor shops the heralds of Greensboro's delayed awakening...
...Montgomery Ariz.-Phoenix Ark.-Little Rock Calif.-Sacramento Col.-Denver Conn.-Hartford Del.-Dover Fla.-Tallahassee Ga.-Atlanta Idaho-Boise Ill.-Springfield Ind.-Indianapolis Iowa-Des Moines Kan.-Topeka Ky.-Frankfort La.-Baton Rouge Me.-Augusta Md.-Annapolis Mass.-Boston Mich.-Lansing Minn.-St. Paul Miss.-Jackson Mo.-Jefferson City Mont.-Helena
Argumentative Yankees, long irritated by the South's faith in an inerrant Jefferson Davis, are likewise distressed by your "Colonel's" failure to perceive any analogy between violation of the 14th and the 18th Amendments. A Main Street inter-racial dialog illuminates the difference: White Man: "Can you vote down here?" Negro: "Oh, yes, sah, I kin vote all right-dat is I kin vote if I kin git registered, but I has been trying to git registered fo' de pas' ten years, and I is always jes' too late or jes' too early...
...maze of unfamiliar facts portrayed in history viewed through smoked glasses* glance twice at such information as: Several Negroes were included among the "minutemen" of the Revolutionary War. Crispus Attucks, Negro, was one of the first four soldiers to shed blood in behalf of U. S. liberty. Southern Aristocrat Jefferson openly opposed slavery; Henry Laurens, George Wythe, George Mason, George Washington tacitly did likewise. At Bunker Hill, Peter Salem, Negro, achieved distinction by killing Major Pitcairn. Jacob Bishop, Negro, was one-time pastor of the First Baptist (white) church of Portsmouth, Va. In 1773, in Maryland, two-thirds of those...
...combination of good Georgian which, after all is a classical derivative with good classical stuff is a very usual one in American architecture of the early part of the nineteenth century. Pleasing results were often achieved notably in the country houses in Virginia to which Mr. Jefferson added porticos. The trouble here is one of scale as well as of style. However, so far, there is nothing royalty goal at to end of the Yard except the new President's house, built by Mr. Lowell. This house is well matched in its manner with the oldest buildings...