Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signers of the Declaration of Independence were constructive radicals of the same type. Most of these men were noted in the history of the Republic. Benjamin Franklin was a signer. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Harrison, two other signers, subsequently became Presidents...
...floor. In the years that followed, he iso lated himself from men and affairs, rode about his plantation, distracted his loneliness with the pursuits that became a gentleman-drinking, dicing, riding. Sometimes he talked politics. Citizen Genet was rebuked; the country expanded westward; John Adams was elected President; Jefferson, with his large affectation of the homespun, became a power in the land. By degrees Bale became concious that he, always a staunch Federalist, was owning loyalty to a party discredited. He affixed to his hat the black cockade of his ances tors, and broke his riding-whip over the head...
...method of dating the narrative with politics and giving history's skeleton,' flesh and wit in the lives of his characters is, though a difficult artifice, perfectly persuasive. To say that we have advanced in our system of government since Revolutionary times is to say that Jefferson was right and Richard Bale was wrong. It is an opinion generally accepted. Mr. Hergeheimer, indeed, holds no brief for the proud Virginia Federalists. Their courtly manner of life was maintained at great social expense. This book reminds the reader that government by gentle men for their peers as against government...
...Chinese Ministry of Education published an order advising provincial authorities against sending students to the U. S. "Their college courses are inefficient," said the Ministry. "Send your students to Europe." Notwithstanding this' advice, 118 Chinese students last week clattered up the gangway of the President Jefferson and sailed from Shanghai...
Died. Mrs. Sarah Antoinette Warren Jefferson, 74, widow of Joseph Jefferson, famed actor; in Manhattan. Herself an actress, she met her husband when she was playing with the Boston Museum Company...