Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta Sculptor Augustus Lukeman, chosen to succeed Borglum at his task, finished a plaster model of what Stone Mountain will look like when his men have hacked and drilled it. Jefferson Davis, in a flowing riding cape, rides into eternity across the mountain-front, closely followed by General Robert E. Lee astride his famed "Traveler", with General Stonewall Jackson pressing on his flank with a detachment of eight tattered troopers...
Quebec, once a French province, preserves the statute that was afterward incorporated in the Code Napoleon. Louisiana, a state which, as everyone knows, was part of the great stretch of territory west of the Mississippi sold by Napoleon to President Jefferson in 1803, retains the very provision of the Code...
...upon Lord Bryce's life and works that Dr. Butler dwelt in his assumptive address, not forgetting many fine courtesies to France, ringing references to Franklin, Jefferson and La-Fayette, fitting eulogy of the French historian, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose writings on the U. S., the speaker implied, were quite as able as Bryce's, if not more so. "A nation," proclaimed Bryce's successor, in lofty conclusion, "must believe in itself as a moral as well as a political entity . . . eager pursuit . . . grave problems . . . powerful aids . . . national security and national satisfaction . . . lasting international peace...
North Entry Jefferson Fletcher '25, Room...
...British forces in New York, and when he escaped set up in business in Philadelphia. He negotiated for Robert Morris all the loans raised in France and Holland, pledged his personal faith and fortune for enormous amounts, and personally advanced large sums to such men as James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Baron Steuben, General St. Clair and many other patriot leaders, who testified that without his aid they could not have carried on in the cause...