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...strong' president between Jackson and Lincoln." He had "guts," "integrity," could not be "brought to heel." But he was also "pompous," "suspicious," "secretive," "humorless," "vindictive." He believed that "wisdom and patriotism were Democratic monopolies." He made an effort to be generous, sometimes confided to his diary: "Although a Whig he seems a gentleman...
...Forum, under Chairman John W. Sullivan '43 has been created to provide the student body with well-known speakers on current topics. unlike the Yale Political Forum and the Princeton Whig-Clio, the Harvard Forum entails no formal membership. Its purpose as Chairman Sullivan put it is "to fulfill the need for important speakers on subjects of paramount interest...
...owned by newspapers, nearly all of which are Democratic. Among Administration friends who may be put on the spot: Jesse Jones (Houston Chronicle, KTRH), Amon Carter (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, WBAP, KGKO), James M. Cox (Dayton, Ohio News; Springfield, Ohio News; Springfield, Ohio Sun; Miami, Fla. News; Atlanta Journal; WHIG, Dayton, Ohio; WIOD, Miami, Fla.; WSB, Atlanta...
...Jackson and the way he cleaned things up in Washington when he was elected. In Tennessee a fellow who didn't own a big spread of buckshot land and had to scratch along in the pines some-where didn't see things just the same way as a Virginia Whig. So Mike Fink was a Democrat...
...equivalent at Tiger town is the Whig-Cliosophic Society, which has some three hundred members, sends speakers out to address clubs and conventions, and runs the Princeton Senate. The entire organization meets once a month at the Senate to discuss issues of country-wide importance, after the fashion of the national debating chamber of the same name. Even taking into account Princeton's conservatism, the absence of pugnacious minority groups there must be explained in part by the atmosphere of free debate. Meanwhile in Cambridge the war of propaganda and counter - propaganda rolls over the Yard leaving broken posters, crumpled...