Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardly mention of any other states in the Union. Frankly booming the President, he overstates his case. Coolidge was a great governor, he has so far acted as a dignified chief executive. But not on these counts is the country likely to hall as the "greatest man since Abraham Lincoln" one who has gained the Presidency through a tragic accident...
...deal with "John Winthrop and the Puritan Union." The lecture on October 19 will show the influence of Benjamin Franklin on the growth of nationality. On October 23, Professor Holcombe will speak on "John Dickenson and the Imperfect National Union", and on October 26, his culminating lecture will be "Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Nationality...
...Addressed delegates of the World's Dairy Congress from the south portico of the White House, saying: " We read that even in the days of Abraham the keeping and tending of flocks and herds was not new, but was well established. Your presence here indicates especially the importance that this industry has attained. . . ." As the President spoke Laddie Buck and Peter Pan, Presidential terriers, sent up a duet of yelps from their kennels immediately beneath the south portico. William Jackson, Negro kennel master, silenced one of them, but the other continued his serenade...
Sued for divorce. John Drinkwater, poet and playwright (author of Abraham Lincoln, Mary Stuart. Oliver Cromwell, Robert E. Lee, editor of The Outline of Literature), by Mrs. Kathleen Walpole Drinkwater, former actress. Charges not stated. The case is not defended...
...This organization had its beginnings in the day of Abraham Lincoln. It is representative of the dominant influences of his time. It partakes of his spirit. It shows the way to a larger freedom. Our country could secure no higher place in history than to have it correctly said that the Red Cross is truly American...