Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Springfield, Ill., Jewish rabbis, Catholic priests, labor leaders, capitalists, sat together and planned a national university to be named after Abraham Lincoln and founded upon his ideals. A university for everybody is the plan?open seven days a week, day and night, to rich and poor, black and white, Jew and Gentile...
...Abraham Lincoln...
...movement is under way to start at Springfield, 111., a new university to be known as Abraham Lincoln University. The plan is to conduct the school upon the democratic principles enunciated by President Lincoln. A permanent endowment of $5,000,000 is intended...
...Author. John Drinkwater, ex-insurance clerk, poet, essayist, one of the founders of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, is probably best known to America as the author of Abraham Lincoln - a play which, in spite of a few minor Briticisms in the original version, remains one of the most faithful and interesting literary portrayals of the rail-splitter President. Mary Stuart and Oliver Cromwell are not as successful as Abraham Lincoln, but in his latest play, Robert E. Lee, Mr. Drinkwater has apparently again struck the bell of success. Robert E. Lee is now running in London and will probably...
Frank McGlynn, who has broken all records for biographical drama by playing three years and two months in Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln, is writing a book about the emancipator based chiefly on material obtained from acquaintances of Lincoln who call after performances to congratulate, question or suggest...