Word: madison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple thesis of this book is that tomorrow's President will not be elected by the people, nor by old-line machine bosses like The Last Hurrah's Frank Skeffington (see above), but by slick advertising boys on Madison Avenue. A candidate will be pretested and merchandised like "a can of beer, a squeeze tube of deodorant, a can of dog food...
...YORK, Feb. 4--Dick Wharton's lunge at the tape wasn't quite enough tonight, and the Manhattan mile relay team held off the Crimson quartet in the Mill-rose Games at Madison Square Garden. Manhattan won in 3:21.3, the fastest in the seven college mile relays...
...Deliberate & Palpable." Last week the great phrase in the South was "the doctrine of interposition." The phrase has an illustrious ancestry. In 1798-99 the legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia passed three resolutions, written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, in protest to the Alien and Sedition Acts. "In the case of a deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise of powers not granted [by the Constitution]," wrote Madison, "the states, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights...
...Alien Act expired in 1800, the Sedition Act in 1801, and the challenge of Madison and Jefferson died with...
...again. Last week, in the Virginia Senate, on Robert E. Lee's birthday, State Senator Harry Carter Stuart, a great-nephew of General Jeb Stuart, introduced a resolution "Interposing the sovereignty of the State against the encroachment upon the reserved powers of this State." Borrowing the adjectives of Madison, the resolution condemned the Supreme Court's decision as "a deliberate, palpable and dangerous attempt ... to usurp the amendatory power that lies solely with not fewer than three-fourths of the States." Crying "We have too long remained silent," the resolution invited other states to ask Congress to call...