Thomas Jefferson

Named 486 times. These are the 400 blocks the name was read from (the first 400 kept), in the order the paper printed them.

Jan 12, 1950 ■Speakers scheduled for the ...Wednesday morning, February 1, program, include C. B. Wilson, (joochland, member of the Thomas Jefferson District Board, and Fee W. Morton, Charlotte C’ H., former member of the Southside District Board. 'A panel discussion on “The District from Our Point...
Feb 2, 1950 Rappahannock News ...fur i-n'i'y a- < c’ass matter i- pending. Subscription: _ S2.00 a year Jefferson—Unity (By Malcolm Moore) Thomas Jefferson, who was one of fhe most liberal and energetic intellectuals in Virginia's history, sensed the importance of rural communal living, the...
Feb 16, 1950 George Washington ...of President. George Washington’s life is not complete unless his character is included. Thomas Jefferson, describes Washington as having a great and powerful mind, strong penetration, he gained from his council of war, he selected what,he thought was the best...
Mar 2, 1950 Requests Increase ...Mountain, 20; Colonial, 87; Tidewater, 208; Northern Neck, 65; Robert E. Lee, 72; Thomas Jefferson, 205; Peanut, 87; Tri-County, 36; J. R. Horsley, 135; Virginia Dare, 291; Northern Virginia, 127; Eastern Shore, 148; Blue Ridge, 139; Southside, 212; Skyline, 57;...
Mar 16, 1950 Do You Know ...first battle of Bull Run. # * * Last week’s famous Virginian was Thomas Jefferson. Raymond Johnson Presents Movie At SHS On Monday, March 13, tne high school boys who belong to the Forest Fire Fighters organization, were shown a...
Apr 27, 1950 Rare Jefferson Books Rare Jefferson Books Owner By W. F. Moffett Four rare leather-bound volumes, “Memoir, Correspondance and Miscellanies from the papers of Thomas Jefferson,” were recently brought to the News office by Mrs. Louemma Moffett. The book?, property of Mrs. Moffett’s son...
Apr 27, 1950 K. L). JEfFRlES L). JEfFRlES Clerk of the Eastern District of Virginia, Jefferson Clark, Printer Attached to tiie back of the fourth volume is a steel engraved ‘fac-simile’ (this fac-simile bears notations of B. Franklin) of the original document written by Thomas Jefferson...
Apr 27, 1950 Views ui uie lyimciwun.and ...handwriting oi each “The opinion universally enter, tained of the extraordinary abilities of Thomas Jefferson, and the signal evidence given by his country, of a profound sense oi his patriotic services and of veneration for his memory have induced the...
Apr 27, 1950 him, to have conversed quite frequently him, to have conversed quite frequently with Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Powers, a carpenter by trade, helped with the construction work of the University of Viaginia, which was built during his time. He and his fellow workmen were reported to have...
Jul 6, 1950 Dr. E. W. Brown ...' of Northern Virginia. Dr. Brown received a certificate of membership from the Thomas Jefferson Society of Patriots of the University of Virginia, for having been an alumnus for fifty yean. Funeral services were held at the Brown home Tuesday...
Nov 9, 1950 Virginia Forests In Good ...Good Condition 'For Game Virginia’s two National 'Forests, the George Washington and the Thomas Jefferson report a bumper crop of mast throughout their areas this fall. •* The heavy yield of high Quality nuts on the bearing trees in the...
Nov 23, 1950 CORRECTIONS i ...of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.—Thomas Jefferson. WHEN IN LURAY / VISIT v HARLIN’S CUT RATE STORE SEE OUR TOY LINE and TOILET GOODS
Apr 12, 1951 or stag $1.50, spectators 75c. ...set a special cleah-up day, may you hereby be informed: April 18 is Thomas Jefferson's birthday, and the State celebrates it with a declaration of a holiday, aa befits honoring one of our country’s greatest statesmen — if not the...
May 17, 1951 Wfasljmgtim ^rfsbuttnan (ftfyurrh > ...construction was under the entire direction of James Leake Powers, a contemporary of Thomas Jefferson, having been born June 10, 1799 and who died during the year 1889, at the age of 90 years. Mr. Powers left many monuments to...
Jun 14, 1951 (3ren and teaching them as they ...going to choose another birthday, but I never could decide whether to pick Thomas Jefferson’s, Benjamin Franklin’s, or Woodrow W’ilson’s. There is no thought in my mind now to even consider changing my birthday. I’m as
Jun 28, 1951 'Sweet land of Liberty ...we were in 1776. We believe in liberty for individuals, just as did Thomas Jefferson, who penned the lines quoted above; j’ust as did George Washington, a wealthy planter who could have sat at home in comfort, but preferred to...
Jul 5, 1951 The gate was a gift, to replace ...Dunlap Found Immortality In One Line of Type (Every school child knows that Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration of Independence, and many konw that John Hancock's signature was first at the bottom of it. Herewith is a story of one...
Jul 5, 1951 keep the name of John Dunlap— the boy who ...the united states and at the head of the army.” The committee included Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. John Hancock authenticated the copy with his signature. Charles Thomson attested it, but who, if...
May 8, 1952 press on legislation,'’ he said. ...our Democratic Party are well-known and quite simple. As enunciated by our foundee, Thomas Jefferson, and as cherished in Virginia, they are: honesty in government, frugality in government, loyalty in government, efficiency in government and, not the least, a minimum...
Jun 12, 1952 . ? # r >s: * « 4| ;; ...questions: __ $ The author of the Declaration of Independence was: —'Alexander Hamilton —Thomas Jefferson / * —Thomas Paine —Samuel Adams * / . ' The Chinese philosopher, Confucius, was born in: —550 B C —2000 B. C. —300 A....
Jul 24, 1952 and governmental leadership in the sisterhood of states. “The ...teachings of Democrats who believed in the fundamental principles of liberty—such , as Thomas Jefferson, who believed ‘that government is best which governs least’; Andrew Jackson, who paid off the public debt during his administration; Grover Cleveland, who Affirmed it...
Aug 14, 1952 power . . . tby speaking and writing ...loud protest. Both levies were quickly repealed. . After the Constitution was written, Thomas Jefferson begged that the States withhold ratification until freedom of the press, among other things, was specifically included. * ■ As a result, the First Amendment...
Aug 21, 1952 Walrus 'a ...drank his Coca-Cola with perfect confidence it tasted just as it had when Thomas Jefferson imbibed it at Raleigh Tavern On one occasion a lady rushed breathless into a drug store and demanded, “How far is it to Jamestjwn ?”...
Jan 15, 1953 the industrial field. ...rules in such a way as to prevent the un. limited debate which Thomas Jefferson regarded as so essential to protect the rights of- minority groups. With this radical proposal voted down after two days of debate we were able...
Jan 22, 1953 Washington, D. C., As Viewed ...a brown suit made in a small domestic mill. Nobody attempted to make Thomas Jefferson’s Inaugural a brilliant affair because they knew it was useless. He rode his favorite saddlehorse from the White House to the Capitol, practicing extreme simplicity...
Feb 12, 1953 There is no tariff, or a very small ...that he opens his cabinet meetings with prayer. The likenesses of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson look down upon those cabinet meetings. The first three did much to give m a Republic; the latter...
Nov 12, 1953 We Salute You ...hold dear, is due to our newspapers. For, as the great political philosopher, Thomas Jefferson said, "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the Press, and that—cannot be limited without being lost.” Albany, Ore., Democrat-Herald: “Only when all interests are...
May 27, 1954 voted against the President, voted against world trade and ...continued, “that in the history of the Demo-cratic party, from its foundation_ by Thomas Jefferson to this day, we have never produced anything that will remotely compare \v ith the McCarthy-Stevens show.” Saying that Ringling Brothers Circus /was leaving Washington,...
Jun 3, 1954 sion we nave been experiencing may be replaced by ...could find inspiration in the examples of such leaders in the past as Thomas Jefferson, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Woodrow Wilson. I _reminded them that one character- _ istic which these four men had,in common was their devotion...
Aug 5, 1954 tors wandering from the subject of debate for the ...this debate illustrated the value of a system abased on rules formulated by Thomas Jefferson, because it allowed -time—for members -of -the— Senate to inform themselves and obtain public reaction to the proposals before us and I believe the bill...
Aug 12, 1954 Traveling with light hearts and light luggage, sixteen ladies .... the Very building where George Washington, Patrick H e n r y, Thomas Jefferson and many more * equally famous men.once worshipped. Much of this historic building is original as it was not destroyed in the fire that swept...
Aug 12, 1954 PRINCIPLES INVOLVED ...to translate into Twentieth Century terms the principles of our gfreat—cst political philosopher—Thomas Jefferson—and it was in that spirit that I took my position on the farm bill debated by the Sen- ate last week. Jefferson believed that those least...
Feb 17, 1955 Robertson said tne reocrai ...the first instance.” He then quoted at length from speeches of Daniel Webster, Thomas Jefferson, James Madi^ son, James Monroe, Martin VanBuren and Andrew Jackson, all of ~ whom had questioned the extent to which the Federal'Government cquld engage directly...
Aug 11, 1955 CORRECTION ...and the so-called Democratic Party of Virginia has departed from the ideologies of Thomas Jefferson as formerly expressed through the party founded by him; therefore I am calling upon the News-Record to make this correction to ‘keep,ihe record straight’. I...
Nov 3, 1955 Mow that it is proposed to void this Constitutional ...inception the pub' lie school system in Virginia was basefTupon local self government. .Thomas Jefferson went so far as to say that the parents of the children should directly control the operations of the public schools. This policy of local...
Nov 17, 1955 Thomas J. Dwyer Thomas J. Dwyer Thomas Jefferson Peter s o n -Dwyer, native of Rappahannock . county, died at the home of his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Dwyer at Brandy, Thursday, November 10. Mr. Dwyer, 78 years of...
Nov 17, 1955 sons: Mrs. Luther Payne, Miss ...Paul Nichols spent the week-end in Richmond and Hopewell. He attend-ed the Hopewell-Thomas Jefferson High School game at Richmond Friday evening.
Nov 24, 1955 The disease of a i ...as civilised society to remain ever uhder the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. —Thomas Jefferson Your family physidian now has poliomyelitis vaccin< for your children from one jear through ■ fen years of age. Fedrral Government fund? have paid for...
Jan 5, 1956 ■ “The recent order of the Supreme Coutipf the ...and prerogatives of the court. It denies the validity of the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson and exalts the philosophy of Alexander Hamilton to a degree which he himself never foresaw. It is an invasion- of those time honored liberties enjoyed...
Jul 19, 1956 Cub Scouts Take Trip ...Take Trip Six' Cub Scouts, Ronnie Hawkins, Frank Moffett, Sammy ^Snead, Roger Hawkins, Thomas Baldwin and Jimmie Jenkins, with Den Mother, Mrs. R. V. Snead and Asst. Den Mother, Mrs. Milton Hawkins were in Washington, D. C., on Tuesday seeing...