Word: thad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Civil War was, as some have called it, the Second American Revolution, Thad Stevens was its leading Jacobin. Much attention has been focused on his thorny character, little on his role in history. The Northern beneficiaries of his Reconstruction ruthlessness have guillotined him with forgetfulness. In the sense that any interest in Stevens is new, Author Alphonse Miller contributes a useful biography, benefits largely by the sweep of the historical and political drama...
...Vermont poor boy, Thad Stevens was admitted to the bar in John Wilkes Booth's birthplace, Bel Air, Md., practiced law in York, Pa. He had the tough, narrow tenacity and discernment of the perfect sectional and sectarian infighter. As far as he saw, he saw clearly; as far as he thought, he thought honestly and without sentiment. His passionate sympathy for the Negro found fearless expression in his years of intimacy with his mulatto housekeeper, Lydia Smith, generally accepted as his common-law wife...
...natural preference for solitude," says his epitaph, "but finding other cemeteries limited by charter rules as to race, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life, equality of man before his Creator." (By all the evidence, Thad Stevens was an atheist...
MADAME TOUSSAINT'S WEDDING DAY- Thad St. Martin-Little, Brown...
...Housing Act he appointed James A. Moffett, onetime vice president of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, who lost his job year ago in a quarrel with Walter C. Teagle over supporting the Administration's oil policy. To the new Communications Commission he named Eugene O. Sykes and Thad H. Brown, Chairman and Vice Chairman of the now defunct Federal Radio Commission, and added Paul Walker (Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner). Norman Case (onetime Governor of Rhode Island), Irvin Stuart (State Department radio expert). George Henry Payne (journalist). Hampson Gary (Wilson's Minister to Switzerland). The President also appointed...