Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dunning had advanced $125,000 to help the Count get into the U.S. (Dunning had borrowed on collateral supplied by Sigmund Janas, president of Colonial Airlines, which flies to Montreal.) In return Dunning was to get 10% of the supposed cash. But, said the FBI: Count Navarro was really Abraham Albert Sycowski of Poland, a slick confidence man. There were no safe deposit boxes...
...seemed as though the prize jury (a museum director, a critic, an artist) liked a little of everything. The prizewinners included Abraham Rattner's Picassoesque, blazing red and yellow Place of Darkness; Gregorio Prestopino's rock-solid study of a train stalled in a flood; Sydney Laufman's impressionistic Road in the Woods, which looked as though it had been daubed on with dirty cotton; Gladys Rockmore Davis' sugar-sweet ballet painting, Pink Tights. Somehow the jury agreed that an almost unknown Californian named Boris Deutsch deserved the $2,500 first prize-for his ragged, muddy...
Died. William Harris Jr., 62, serious-minded Broadway producer of serious-minded plays (Outward Bound, The Criminal Code, John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln); after long illness; in Manhattan...
...people of the North, from Abraham Lincoln down, knew him as Little Aleck, devoted champion of states' rights and the constitutional liberties of all men-except Negroes. To the South he was Alexander Hamilton Stephens of Georgia, Vice President and chief enigma of the Confederacy...
...Abraham Lincoln's admonition . . . can properly be applied only against those who have lost an election and then attempt to reverse the decision by an appeal to force. That was not the case with the Athens veterans. ... It was the machine, not the veterans, who made the appeal to force. It was the veterans who were the forces of law and order. ... I think you owe it to the veterans to say so, and to quote the rest of Lincoln's fine statement with that point in mind. He said...