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...When, in July 1861, Abraham Lincoln's hard-pressed Government sold a $50 million, 6% loan, redeemable in 1881, only by the device of marking each $100 of bonds down to $89.25, thus raising the interest yield...
...over to the Kennedy camp immediately, and although Johnson forces vowed resistance in every district, Kennedy seemed likely to capture a good share of the convention votes. In Ohio, where Johnson's strength had seemed impervious to McCarthy, there were some defections in Kennedy's favor. Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, previously a Johnson supporter, announced himself a free agent. Maine Governor Kenneth Curtis publicly recalled his admiration for Kennedy, while Vermont Governor Philip Hoff came out for him officially, as did Massachusetts Democratic Chairman Lester Hyman. In Oregon, Representative Edith Green became a leader of Kennedy...
...Like a muse-spurned poet thumbing through the rhyming dictionary, Lyndon Johnson diligently seeks out the sayings of his embattled predecessors. Last month his favorite prophet was Abraham Lincoln. This month's oracle is his lifelong idol and sometime mentor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In his commentaries on the Viet Nam war last week, L.B.J. invoked F.D.R. to rally support for the cause...
...trial, H. L. Mencken mercilessly shredded the arguments of Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan, who served as a special prosecutor against the teacher of Darwin's theory. Wrote Mencken: "The mountebank Bryan, parading the streets in his seersucker coat, is pointed out to sucklings as the greatest man since Abraham." Was such reporting an attempt to influence the outcome of the trial...
While Bindrim was mulling this over, Dr. Abraham Maslow, this year's pres ident of the American Psychological Association, described psychologists' training groups as "a kind of psychologi cal nudism under careful direction...