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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wheeler was awarded the Lee Wade prize of $50 for his recitation of "Pecksniff to his daughters" by Charles Dickens. Vaccaro won the Boylston award of $50 with the poem "The Laughters" by Louis Untermeyer. Weaver, reciting "Abraham Lincoln" by Booker T. Washington, and Peterson, reciting "The Admiral's Ghost" by Alfred Noyes were awarded the two $30 Boylston prizes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WADE-BOYLSTON WINNERS NAMED | 4/5/1928 | See Source »

...forth for fresh adventures in North Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin. After those States, he said, he would visit Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, New York. He said he was sure people were glad he had revived a method of campaigning that was "good enough for Abraham Lincoln." A Reed campaign fund was begun by his Missouri friends. The slogan: "A Dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pre-Convention | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...vile propagandist" who had represented as typical of the Philippines such "filth" as she could find in the "sewers." He cited for inconsistency with the present Philippine policy of the U. S., many a glowing period on liberty and independence by President Coolidge, Charles Evan Hughes, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln. He argued that the Philippines were capable of economic independence, even if faced with a U. S. tariff wall, as suggested by the fact that smaller, poorer, less populous and less literate republics are increasing their export trades far more rapidly than the paternalized Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Gabaldon's Going | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Emil Ludwig, best-selling biographer of Napoleon and Bismarck, announced last week, as he sailed from Manhattan on the Majestic, that his next word-portrait will be of Abraham Lincoln. "I carry him in my pocket," said Herr Ludwig, showing a Lincoln penny. "He fascinates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...method of taking motion pictures is to tilt the camera at various odd angles and glimpse life from strange points of vantage. Similar in idea, it would seem are the studies by William E. Barton of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Barton, who wrote "The Women Lincoln Loved," "The Great Good Man," and "A Beautiful Blunder" to supplement his "Life of Abraham Lincoln," has with diminished success attempted to correlate the lives of the Emancipator and Walt Whitman...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND WALT WHITMAN. By William E. Burton. Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis. $2.75. | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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