Word: jacksonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jacksonian Democracy and the Court", Professor Elliott, Harvard...
Honesty. Speeches and resolutions are very well, but the Democratic party is traditionally the party of individualism. There are as many brands of Democracy as there have been outstanding Democratic leaders?Jeffersonian, Jacksonian, Cleveland, Bryan*, Wilsonian. Now there was to be a Smith Democracy. The convention waited to hear Nominee Smith's interpretation of his leadership. When the telegram arrived, it contained three important statements...
...After the nomination and the Smith telegram denouncing Prohibition, the anti-Smith movement was given somewhat more definite form. Preachermen, including Bishop James Cannon Jr. (Methodist Episcopal) and the Rev. Arthur J. Barton (Baptist), called for a Dry rally at Asheville, N. C., next week and for a "National Jacksonian Democratic Convention" on Aug. 7 at Richmond, Va. Observers doubted that these gatherings, if held, would become any more significant than the proposed national convention of the Prohibition Party, which was called for next week in Chicago...
...sleep. He visited the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, made lofty speeches and pleased his guests so well that the powerful Atlanta Constitution said in an editorial next day: "Tammany as an organization may have its detractors, but the men of Tammany are Democrats of the old Jeffersonian and Jacksonian schools. They are not everlastingly chasing after false gods and new 'isms' and 'schisms' . . . . Thousands of New York's Democracy may be Irish, but they are as good Americans as they are Democrats, and the Irishman is as jealous of his party...
Physicist Wilson. In 1895, when Professor Compton was a demure three-year-old baby at Wooster (he is now 35), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson began his serious study of electromagnetic forces. This was at Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University. Since 1925 he has been Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge...