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...programs, torpedo his campaign promise to "get this country moving again." And as a man who likes to read history books, Kennedy can hardly help recalling 1929 and its aftermath. The smashup of 1929, leading to the Great Depression, crushingly ended the rarely interrupted Republican dominance that began with Abraham Lincoln. For a proud Democratic President, it would be hard to imagine a fate more hideous than to become the Democratic version of Herbert Hoover...
...weeks ago Tocsin sent 20 students to Waterbury, Conn., to aid the campaign of Rep. Frank Kowalski, who is challenging Abraham Ribicoff and the Bailey machine in the Democratic Senatorial Primary...
...footnote to your story on New Hampshire's Governor Samuel W. Powell Jr. [May 4], you state that Abraham Lincoln lost three elections. I should like to point out that only one of these was by direct vote of the people. I refer to his defeat in 1832, the first time he ran for public office (Illinois state legislature...
Tocsin will send about 50 students to Waterbury Conn., Saturday to campaign for Rep. Frank Kowalski, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for Senator from Connecticut. Kowalski, a former Army colonel who has compiled an independent voting record during two terms in the House, faces a tough battle against Abraham Ribicoff, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare...
Lincoln's Epic. Northerners filled their writings with Calvinist fervor, certain that God had willed them to stamp out slavery. "This vision of Judgment," writes Wilson, "was the myth of the North." Though not at first an abolitionist, Abraham Lincoln made this "myth" stick by the power of his words. Driven by ambition to be President, he grew more apocalyptic in his comments on slavery as war approached. "He created himself as a poetic figure," writes Wilson, "and thus imposed himself on the nation. We have, in general, accepted the epic that Lincoln directed and lived and wrote." Some...