Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S craggy, compassionate countenance, crinkling with humor and graven by tragedy, is as familiar to most Americans as the faces of their own grandfathers. The first great photographer, Matthew Brady, portrayed Lincoln many times in the course of the Civil War, and generations of schoolboys have studied Brady's portraits. Few ever saw the beardless, relatively untried Lincoln opposite, which was displayed with a Lincoln's Birthday flourish this week in Washington's Corcoran Gallery...
...possibility of hearings on the Abraham J. Multer (D.N.Y.) tax resolution virtually disappeared at the same time, however. The Council attacked the plan as "impractical and undesirable," and experts consider Council approval for proposed educational legislation necessary to passage...
...years. In 1875 President Polk precipitated a war with Mexico by sending American troops onto disputed soil between Mexico and the Republic of Texas. Once Polk created this "antecedent state of things," in Hamilton's phrase, Congress had no choice but to make a formal declaration of war. Abraham Lincoln, as a first-term Congressman, was among those voting to censure Polk for "unconstitutional" actions. But as President, Lincoln was to undertake drastic actions against the Confederacy without prior Congressional consent. The North never even admitted the existence of a state...
...financial burden has come slowly. Last year an important concession in the income tax law eliminated an unreasonable limit on a student's earnings. This law brought a unique problem of students into perspective, without providing any unfair privileges. A recent and widely heralded bill proposed by Representative Abraham Multer of New York, however, interferes with the benefits from last year's law and gives extensive tax reductions in the wrong place...
...father? Love (Maggie McNamara) walks in, to soothe his fevered brow. And just when the action has settled down to a nice homey drone of hysteria, almost as dull as Saturday night in Bedlam-bang! Brother John (John Derek) puts a bullet into Abraham Lincoln, and the public takes its revenge on Edwin with a full barrage-of vegetables...