Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ABRAHAM LINCOLN...
...through the press by men interested in educational affairs. One recent writer believes the trouble to be that universities are spending billions for buildings and giving only loose change to professors. Another believes that college entrance requirements are at the bottom of the accumulation of woes. And now comes Abraham Flexner in the Atlantic Monthly for October who avows that the trouble lies in the fact that the term university has no definite meaning in America as it has on the Continent and in Great Britain. It can mean almost anything, since no copyright, legal or traditional, protects...
...Presbyterian Church to hear words from Elbert H. Gary, steel magnate and famed author of rules for a successful life. Business success was the burden of his message. Be agreeable, said he, approachable, popularize yourself and your business. "Adopt and apply the standards of propriety. . . . Honesty is best. . . . Abraham Lincoln. . . . Marshall Field. . . . J. Pierpont Morgan. . . . The average man likes to hear himself talk too much. It is well to let the other man talk half of the time...
...letter from one W. A. Aiken, self-styled "92-year old Green Mountain boy," revived the Coolidge"third term" perennial. Mr. Aiken wrote that he had cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, and that he hoped to cast what will probably be his last for Calvin Coolidge, in 1928. The fact that the President thanked Mr. Aiken, and that the Aiken letter was allowed to see the light at all "is "is regarded as significant...
Died. Mrs. Mary E. Goldthwaite, 83, third cousin of Abraham Lincoln, close friend of his son Robert, wife of Alonzo Goldthwaite who traced his lineage "directly to George Washington;" in Chicago...